Jane Lindskold Quotes

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

I've been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year - almost 20 years ago - I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.

I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't be able to write anymore, so I thought I'd go back to the typewriter. But you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer.

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.

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

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

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to run at optimum speed.

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.

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

I already have it, but a good keyboard is invaluable when you spend a lot of time typing. My favorite one is the ancient IBM Model M I have at home.

The keyboard is my whole life. My life is centered around either sitting at my keyboard or driving my car. Those are the two most important things, more than anything else. Being at my keyboard, it's the happiest time for me.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Cloud is just emerging, but it's high growth.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

India... what a big part you play in this story for IBM and for the world.

I don't really use emojis. Is that weird? In the time it takes for me to even find the flexed-arm emoji, I could just type that I'm at the gym.

In the process of them developing this instrument, I've been playing the melodica in the style I would like the harmoniboard to be played, which is a mix between a harmonica and keyboard. I play with trumpet style techniques. I really like the mobility of being able to step off the piano and bring the music to the audience.

The notion of what we're trying to do at AMD is about bringing out great technology, great products.

I plan to retire at 50. When I'm done, I ain't touching no more keyboards.

IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology.

Moore's law is really about economics.