Quotes About Word Processing

#1. Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand. This is exactly the opposite of what you want them to learn. They're approaching the computer as just another abstract school subject.

Seymour Papert

#2. The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.

Bill Gates

#3. VI was predecessor to hundreds of word processing systems. By now, Unix folks see it as a bit stodgy - it hasn't the versatility of Gnu-Emacs, nor the friendliness of more modern editors. Despite that, VI shows up on every Unix system.

Clifford Stoll

#4. But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

Jilly Cooper

#5. After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.

Douglas Adams

#6. As a writer, that moment every few years when I buy a new laptop and find out that all the word processing stuff has slightly changed again (stuff I spend every working day using) is like getting into bed at night and finding some mad robot where you expected your wife to be.

John Niven

#7. By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.

Robert Motherwell

#8. Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

Rupert Sheldrake

#9. Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.

Steve Case

#10. Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

Brian Eno

#11. technologies like payroll processing software, factory automation, computer-controlled machines, automated inventory control, and word processing have been deployed for routine work, substituting for workers in clerical tasks, on the factory floor, and doing rote information processing.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#12. We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it.

Stephen Kuusisto

#13. 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

#14. The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

Steve Jobs

#15. After the moon went down, the heaven was a thing to wonder at for stars.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#16. I love to sing some Beyonce - ya know, like 'All the Single Ladies.' I'll sing that - maybe not with the body shakin' - but I'll have a little bit of the hand movement going on.

Dwyane Wade

#17. I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

Bobby Moynihan

#18. All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

Godfrey Reggio

#19. I just want to be young and fun and you know I think people should all wear yellow shoes.

Justin Bieber

#20. Reading builds a scaffold of vocabulary and word associations that facilitate learning new information.

It improves your brain processing speed for text because you have more rapid comprehension.

Peter Rogers

#21. You do not know what you are; can you know what I am?

Katherine Arden

#22. I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

Walter Isaacson

#23. The divorce is from my old putter. I think it's final - at least we're due for a long separation. I've suffered with that old putter for two years now. It got so rude I couldn't stand it.

Shelley Hamlin

#24. Forgive yourself for every wrongdoing.
Forgive others without judging.
Hug others with great love and care.
Be optimistic and be ready to share.

Debasish Mridha

#25. You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release.

Sabaa Tahir

#26. I've definitely met nightmare Hollywood types who think they're getting twenty million dollars a picture when they're not. But they act like it. And they just insult everybody.

Brendan Sexton III

#27. We have an overdraft with the earth something in excess of 130 per cent. We currently consume something like 30 per cent over and above what we are replacing and rather like an overdraft at a bank that can't go on.

Michael Meacher

#28. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

Roger Zelazny

#29. AGAMEMNON: I will not slay my children, nor shall thy interests be prospered by justice in thy vengeance for a worthless wife, while I am left wasting, night and day, in sorrow for what I did to one of my own flesh and blood, contrary to all law and justice.

Euripides