Joichi Ito Quotes

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.

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

All of the men on my staff can type.

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

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

I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

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.

I can't type. Can't do it.

I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.

The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.

The best class I ever took in high school was typing.

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.

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.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

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.

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.

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

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

I'm trying to learn how to write faster.

Submitting is always the most important thing to me. Victory first, but with a submission is what I always want.