Penn Jillette Quotes

I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

I don't really love computers.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it.

I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.

Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I've gotten older, I think there's a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

When I first started running there were no computers. There was no such thing as a laptop.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

I think smartphones need to send an electrical shock to a user when they get their your/you're mixed up.

I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.

I don't think Apple would be making the computers, the iPhone, being the top electronics company it is, if Steve Jobs didn't have some regrets over mistakes he made and learned to overcome them.

Computers used to petrify me before I figured it was just a matter of getting used to them.

Silicon Valley is a great place for Bitcoin, since everyone understands computers, and there are lots of libertarians running around.

My mom bought a computer in the '80s to do accounting, and she was so smart at computers that we spent all our time with them. My childhood was sitting on the floor of her office and figuring out how to program with my mom.

There are many ways to improve your writing. Here's the bad news: 1.They all require hard work. 2.There is no magic bullet.