Laptops Quotes - Page 3

• One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.

  Gail Collins

  Memories, College, Feelings

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Years, Two, Apples

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• For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Doom And Gloom, Marketing

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• Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control your hands, and know you'll survive until your eighteenth birthday." Then the kid was going, "Uh, I didn't mean..." But Tad wasn't done yet. While the whole class watched in horror, he put his hands through the metal support braces on the arms of his wheelchair and forced himself to stand up. Then he took a shaky little step to the side, gestured toward the chair, and said, "Why don't you take a turn with the laptop? You can even have my seat.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Sorry, Mean, Kids

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• The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook.

  Penn Jillette

  Guy, Waiting, Today

  "Sound Bytes; Penn Jillette Finds Magic In His Personal Computer". Interview with Peter H. Lewis, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 1993.

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• When I go away to do a movie, I bring the blanket I've had since I was a little girl. It helps me sleep. I also always bring my laptop so I can E-mail friends. And I bring my dog, Beauty, wherever I can.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Girl, Dog, Sleep

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• I've learned I'm rarely able to stay at home and not work. If I try to 'just sit on my couch for a little while,' I am going to grab my laptop and just knock out a few more emails, or start sketching up some product ideas for TheMuse.com. So when I want time off, I schedule dinners out, movie outings, and on occasion a flight lesson from Groupon.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Home, Ideas, Trying

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• 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.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Dad, Teenager, Ipads

  "The joy of traditional games" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

  David Guetta

  Generations, Computer, Studios

  "David Guetta: lord of dance". Interview with Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

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• I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

  Ryan Tedder

  Cells, Phones, Cell Phone

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• I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

  Robert Smith

  Writing, Paper, Pens

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• [The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on the counter with duck stickers on it, the spice cabinet was full of Ben's toy trucks, and Jane couldn't spot a cookbook anywhere. This is the kitchen of a Thinker, she decided, and promised herself that she'd never bother with cooking, either.

  Jeanne Birdsall

  Ducks, Cooking, Kitchen

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• Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Morning, Stars, Generations

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• When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

  Tea Obreht

  Mother, Black And White, Eight

  "Téa Obreht" by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

  Steven Pinker

  Book, Thinking, Trends

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• New Rule: You're never going to pick up women at a coffee shop pretending to be working on your laptop. You don't look like you're sensitive, you look like you're homeless.The last guy to pick up a chick with an Apple was Adam. And when you sit across from another dateless loser with a laptop, it still doesn't look like you're working--it looks like you're playing Battleship.

  Bill Maher

  Coffee, Apples, Guy

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.65, Penguin

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• I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

  Carlos Slim

  Technology, Men, Paper

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• The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

  Daniel Goleman

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.

  James Rollins

  Travel, Crazy, Writing

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• We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

  Tina Fey

  Dream, Writing, Actors

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• We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

  John Cleese

  Ideas, Knows

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• I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good.

  Susan Orlean

  Thinking, Phones, Different

  "iPhone Home: Susan Orlean". www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what Ive written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.

  Robin Wasserman

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Impossible

  "Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin Talk A Prairie Home Companion". movieweb.com. June 09, 2006.

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