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• I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

  Bill Gates

  Phones, People, Messages

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• It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.

  J. B. Priestley

  Children, Piano, Keys

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• Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up-well, maybe once.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Science, Love Is

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• I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.

  Tom Clancy

  Character, Thinking, Goes On

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• We've decided [with Jordan Peele] that we need to be on the Internet for a little bit of time every day to figure out what's going on. It feels like we're working. It feels like you're all typing and you're searching.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Jordan, Needs, Littles

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time - but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Views, Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings

  Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.134, Harmony

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• Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.

  Carl Reiner

  Writing, Ideas, Creating

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.

  Douglas Crockford

  Strong, Errors, Worry

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• Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

  Richelle Mead

  Technology, Class, Pie

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• Bingo!! Once again, privatization--*total* privatization--is the best solution. Get government, and government-sanctioned business collectives, out of the health 'care' picture entirely and, just maybe, I can go back to typing the word 'care' (in relation to 'health') without the quotes. :-)

  Edward Britton

  Government, Care, Bingo

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• The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when I write. I'm listening and typing as fast as I'm hearing the words.

  Doreen Virtue

  Writing, Listening, Hearing

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• take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

  Charles Bukowski

  Typewriters, Chaos, Sickness

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• I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.

  Anne Tyler

  Husband, Mean, Thinking

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• Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Prayer, Moving

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• The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.

  Sue Grafton

  Pieces, Paper, Liquid

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• SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

  Philip Greenspun

  Thinking, Language, Haskell

  "How long is the average Internet discussion forum posting?". Philip Greenspun's Weblog, blogs.harvard.edu. March 7, 2005.

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• My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

  Pat Conroy

  Father, Childhood, Let Me

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• Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type.

  Mike Lazaridis

  Real, Iphone, Keys

  "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

  James Patterson

  Jobs, Like Her, Receptionists

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• As nice as the Apple iPhone is, it poses a real challenge to its users. Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type.

  Jim Balsillie

  Real, Nice, Iphone

  "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Writing, Talking, Fiction

  Source: lbc.typepad.com

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• Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point. So I think it is still important to have physical CDs and stuff like that.

  Jason Aldean

  Song, Artist, Thinking

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• When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

  Tig Notaro

  Coffee, Paper, Cigarette

  "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

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• We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Robots, Different, Faces

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 3, 2015.

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• I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naïveté is the part of the craft he has to nurture most.

  Jack Nicholson

  Successful, Actors, Done

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