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I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either. By Charles Bukowski Ideas Carry Notebooks Consciously Store

Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think. By Marissa Moss Notebooks Recordkeeping Kid Kinds Freely

I've been slightly obsessed with paper and notebooks. Among my most precious possessions is a small light-blue, breviary-sized volume - four-and-a-half inches wide, seven inches tall - made by a company called Denbigh. By Michael Dirda Notebooks Denbigh Slightly Obsessed Paper

Gadgets - our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were a good idea at the time, but have never made it out of their boxes. By Sheherazade Goldsmith Gadgets Time Boxes Houses Filled

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form. By Bill Gates Paper Day Longer Big Part

I don't go anywhere without my iPod, laptop and at least one book. By Michael Urie Ipod Laptop Book

One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries. By Gail Godwin Talks Musings Pep Notebooks Centuries

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air. By Karl Rove Air Cool Macbook Wife Jealous

My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC. By Gary Reilly Selectric Ibm Dream Buy Big

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation. By David Guetta Studio Laptop Music Generation Work

A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet. By Lolo Jones Laptop Businessman Athletes Diet Massages

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. By Nicholson Baker Books Beautifully Browsable Invention Electricity

I argued for a Kindle but they pointed out that if it could be associated with me, then the information bleed - Amazon logging every page turn and annotation - was a potential security hazard. Not to mention the darker esoteric potential of spending too much time staring at a device controlled by a secretive billionaire in Seattle. The void stares also, and so on. By Charles Stross Amazon Kindle Bleed Annotation Hazard

I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus ... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet! By Lee Ann Womack Bus Internet Computer Mac Macs

More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not there just to illustrate the text but to replace it, to tell their own story. By Marissa Moss Books Images Freeflowing Inspires Work

Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell. By Donald Lambert Computers Artist Tool Creative Flat

Leather-covered notebook and a gold ink-pencil. Immediately By George Orwell Immediately Leathercovered Inkpencil Notebook Gold

I have to admit that this notebook, with its wilderness of blank pages, seems almost more threat than gift - for what can I write here that it will not hurt to remember? You By Jean Hegland Notebook Pages Gift Remember Admit

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. By Doug Larson Home Functions Including Dog Computers

Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006] By Harper Lee July Years Ipods Mockingbird Open

Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I write. For me, it's words, not paper, that matter most in the end. This practice has had the additional benefit of greatly reducing the time I spend storming through the house, defaming the mysterious forces who 'hid my book.' By Scott Turow Traveling Write Spend Tend Reading

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever. By Mark Boal Computer Write Laptop

computer-majiggies, By Daniel Jose Older Computermajiggies

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds. By Curt Schilling Pounds Weighed Laptop

I think it's time to experience life outside the notebook. By Rachel Cohn Notebook Time Experience Life

When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off. By John Darnielle Notebooks Kid Shelves Work Idea

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer. By Lee Child Desks Paperwork Email Computer Empty

I have a few friends who still moan that paper is the only way to read a book, but I'd rather have fifty or a hundred novels in a compact tablet than have to worry about lugging around that many books." "Until the power goes out." Ivan shrugged. "When that happens, I won't have time to read." Loredana By Terry Schott Book Books Friends Moan Paper

Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it. By David Guetta Laptop Technologies Full Studio Laptops

I'm sure computers are useful, but next to all these warm, beautiful books they seem so cold and clinical. By J.r. Johansson Warm Beautiful Clinical Computers Books

When he went to PARC for his formal interview, Kay was asked what he hoped his great achievement there would be. "A personal computer," he answered. Asked what that was, he picked up a notebook-size portfolio, flipped open its cover, and said, "This will be a flat-panel display. There'll be a keyboard here on the bottom, and enough power to store your mail, files, music, artwork, and books. All in a package about this size and weighing a couple of pounds. That's what I'm talking about." His interviewer scratched his head and muttered to himself, "Yeah, right." But Kay got the job. By Walter Isaacson Parc Interview Asked Formal Hoped

(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon's Kindle?)Those aren't books. You can't hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn't do that for you. I'm sorry. By Ray Bradbury Kindle Amazon Book Computer Smells

Now kids get a MacBook and regard it as an appliance. They treat it like a refrigerator and expect it to be filled with good things, but they don't know how it works. They don't fully understand what I knew, and my parents knew, which was what you could do with a computer was limited only by your imagination.8 By Walter Isaacson Appliance Kids Macbook Regard Knew

Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. By Joe Queenan People Books Electronic Problems Subway

Apple's products By Walter Isaacson Apple Products

I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close! By Estelle Brazil Africa Plane Started Album

I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling. By Rick Boucher Lot Washington Computer Computers Basis

We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s. By Howard Rheingold Internet Personal Mobile Computer Phones

The other major kind of computer is the "Apple," which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer you basically just plug in and use. By Dave Barry Apple Recommend Newage Computer Major

To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks. By Thomas Mallon History Notebooks Extent Plagiarism

I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music. By Aaron Sorkin Apple Products Mac Written Macintosh

The iPhone has completely changed how I interact with information on the go. When I travel I leave the notebook at home. By Steve Rubel Iphone Completely Changed Interact Information

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends. By Barton Gellman Office Syncing Ends Favor Pocketsized

I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down. By Elton John Computer Luddite Phone Portable Write

I got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop. By Ryan Hemsworth University Laptop Macbook Year Stopped

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop. By Joanne Harris Write Absolutely Laptop

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place. By Chuck Palahniuk Apartment Writing Started Computer People

My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing. By Daryn Kagan Pro Web Africa Sun Valley

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book. By Will Self Book Loathe Computers Shut Shelve

Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on. By Tom Hodgkinson Mum Dad Facebook Computers Laptop

I'm a bit of a gadget freak. By Matt Lanter Freak Bit Gadget

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy By Jack Kerouac Scribbled Notebooks Pages Joy Secret

Coffee, creativity, keyboard. The plot thickens. By William Blackwell Coffee Creativity Keyboard Thickens Plot

The keyboard is my journal. By Pharrell Williams Journal Keyboard

Computers are good, but only while they are working. Otherwise, they are no more use than a paperweight By Farahad Zama Computers Good Working Paperweight

I pat the brand new twenty-seven inch Macintosh computers Mr. Foley brought us. 'These boxes alone should make both of us scream like it's Christmas morning! Snap out of it. Santa came! Now we get to play with all of our toys! By Anne Eliot Macintosh Foley Pat Brand Twentyseven

I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet. By Alex Trebek Internet Apple Spider Solitaire Computer

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world. By Charlie Brooker Stools Laptop Smartphone Ipad Falls

There were no laptops or handheld devices in class. Ilgauskas didn't exclude them; we did, sort of, unspokenly. Some of us could barely complete a thought without touch pads or scroll buttons, but we understood that high-speed data systems did not belong here. They were an assault on the environment, which was defined by length, width, and depth, with time drawn out, computed in heartbeats. By Don Delillo Class Laptops Handheld Devices Unspokenly

It's remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable. By Brandt Legg Device Pocket Books Remarkable Fits

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing. By Luke Bryan Ipad Buy Kind Books Book

It's a world where you're going to have a phone, a tablet, a computer - you don't have to choose. And so what's more important is how you seamlessly move between them all ... It's not like this is a laptop person and that's a tablet person. It doesn't have to be that way. By Phil Schiller Phone Computer Choose Tablet World

We have three post-PC devices: the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, the revolutionary device that defined a whole new categoryit's outstripping the wildest of predictions. By Tim Cook Ipod Iphone Ipad Predictions Postpc

A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket to hold all of mu mistakes. By Albert Einstein Desk Pads Pencil Mistakes Large

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India. By Damon Galgut India Hand Pen Work Fountain

I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements. By Jeffrey Eugenides Wave Briefcase Kind Point Hinges

Computing is a big segment. It's more than just mobile devices or PCs and laptops. By Brian Krzanich Computing Segment Big Laptops Mobile

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity. By Robin S. Sharma Cell Phones Mobile Email Productivity

The Ono-Sendai; next year's most expensive Hosaka computer; a Sony monitor; a dozen disks of corporate-grade ice; a Braun coffeemaker. By William Gibson Hosaka Sony Braun Onosendai Computer

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on. By Clint Black Email Staying Computers Current Finding

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter. By Ray Bradbury Typewriter Computer

Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere. By Jo Ann Davis Beepers Equipped Phones Computers Conspicuously

I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road. By Theophilus London Travel Laptop Road Business

As much as I loved my computer, I wondered if I would ever know the joy of getting a letter from someone I loved, being able to pour over its contents time and time again, to feel the paper that he touched, and to know he took the time to share his day. By Lynn Cahoon Loved Time Computer Touched Day

When I was finishing grad school, the hot new PC was the IBM 286. Bulky. Immobile. Expensive. I touched-typed easily and quickly, but nevertheless, I realized that the machine was a chain. By Jane Lindskold Ibm School Finishing Grad Hot

And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm of a number two pencil and a mind open to the possibilities. By Toni Sorenson Summer Smeared Stains Notebook Spine

So, your kids must love the iPad?" I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company's first tablet was just hitting the shelves. "They haven't used it," he told me. "We limit how much technology our kids use at home." (Nytimes article, Sept. 10, 2014) By Nick Bilton Ipad Steve Jobs Love Kids

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one. By Marc Andreessen Practically Pocket General Purpose Computer

Glowing screens, increasingly foldable, portable, companionable, anticipating any possible question the human brain might generate. By Jhumpa Lahiri Portable Companionable Glowing Screens Increasingly

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books. By Steve Wozniak Briefcase Books Nice Design Real

The PC is becoming a truck. Everybody is using a tablet and a phone. By Brad D. Smith Truck Phone Tablet

I read (and copied into my Interesting Things I Have Heard notebook) By Matthew Quick Interesting Things Heard Read Notebook

I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me - but I am not, historically, an early adopter of such things. By Jonathan Dee Paper Historically Hopelessly Devoted Sort

Walter Isaacson, who ate dinner with the Jobs family while researching his biography of Steve Jobs, told Bilton that, "No one ever pulled out an iPad or computer. The kids did not seem addicted at all to devices." It seemed as if the people producing tech products were following the cardinal rule of drug dealing: never get high on your own supply. By Adam Alter Jobs Isaacson Steve Bilton Walter

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing. By Anna Meredith Laptop Orchestra Physicality Hearing Lovely

Crave the small, tactile simplicity of my new Kindle Paperwhite in its purple leather cover, which is currently home to what would make up around three boxes of physical books, but whose screen's digital imprint is flattened of all memory and association. It's soulless and almost weightless. By Linda Grant Kindle Paperwhite Crave Small Tactile

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook. By Jay-Z Paper Bag Store Bodega Juice

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago. By Nicole Krauss Write Notes Notebook Ago Green

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece. By Dave Barry Today Computers Apiece Distinctive Classes

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s. By Clifford Stoll Computers Classrooms Filmstrips

I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore. By Jill Abramson Anymore Pretty Stopped Laptop Lineediting

In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing. By Douglas Adams Stare Window Days Writers Sit

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well. By David Hockney Ipad Joy Gogh Van Loved

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world. By Jonathan Lethem Work World Laptop Specifically Cafes

got the Journal to buy me a Fat Mac." I had convinced the big guys in New York that if I was going to be writing about Apple, I'd better be familiar with their latest machines. By Brent Schlender Mac Journal Fat Buy Apple

Nancy carried a cardboard boxes loaded with books toward the moving van that Saturday morning. Our eyes met and we shared a smile. "You didn't have as much stuff when you moved in," she pointed out wryly. "How many boxes of books is this? Seriously. It's like you're living in a freaking library." I shrugged. "You know me. I have a bit of a book fetish." "I wouldn't mind the books if you'd join us in the 21st century and get an e-reader already. Then when you move a thousand books from place to place, I don't risk throwing my back out. By Anonymous Saturday Books Nancy Morning Carried

When fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor. By Fred Brooks Strong Floor Fits Creativity Run

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk. By Howard Rheingold Personal Desk Created Teenagers Garages

Bookbag, Pocketshoe. By Rebecca Stead Pocketshoe Bookbag

So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct for reality which I sometimes envy but do not possess. By Joan Didion Thinking Point Keeping Notebook Accurate