James A. Michener Quotes

I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

I'm really fortunate that I type 120 words a minute.

I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely - every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds.

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.

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.

I suspect many people have the problem that they type much more slowly than they think. Consequently, they keep resynchronizing their thought processes with what they have typed so far, and they match a later part of the thought with an earlier part that they have typed.

In my mind, the speed of the game is mental.

Thinking is the highest form of leverage.

Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

I've gotten much better at multi-tasking. It's hard, though. But, writing a script is not totally focused. You're taking little breaks, all the time. If a kid runs in, you give 'em a horsey ride. It's a pretty fluid process.

If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.

Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.

I have seen cabinet secretaries who type with two fingers.

I've had someone, my assistant, type for me. I've done it that way for more than 50 years because I type with one finger, although quite rapidly.

I think that we get so distracted with our smartphones... It takes your body and your brain time to switch between tasks. If we can focus on what we're doing, we'll be more productive at that task.

If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.