Mark Twain Quotes

I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

Prior to 1980, people used to dictate to a secretary for preparing written documents and that person would then punch keys on a typewriter. I was inspired to invent a medium for doing this work by engaging just one person.

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.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

I love order and organization.

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing your homework or studying for a test, you have to have a clean room.

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

A new broome sweepeth cleane.

In a good house all is quickly ready.

I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy.

I'm trying to learn how to write faster.

When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.

The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

What users want is convenience and results.

The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.

I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two. I did it for convenience and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning.

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.