Ray Tomlinson Quotes

If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you're typing faster than your mind is working.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I've got to keep up with them. It's a miracle they even give me a royalty.

Sometimes it just becomes so technical that you forget what you're doing. If you start thinking about how you come down the stairs and think about how each muscle is working, you can't go down the stairs. Anyway, I'm a person who overthinks and overanalyzes everything, so if you give me one thought, it creates a lot more.

I have always tended to over-think things and that had come into my game. That's good in certain moments but not when you have to make a quick decision.

I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can't type as well as I used to, I really don't use one very much.

It can take a surprisingly long time to get from one part of my mind to another.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.

Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, bet you can't type that.

I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars....But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable....It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.

I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.