Laptop Computers Quotes

• Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).

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  Seth Godin

  People   Laptops   Computer  

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• The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it wrong. Sometimes it makes the wrong decision because it fails to anticipate the market (as Japan did when it downplayed laptop computers and stressed mainframes).

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  Dick Morris

  Past   Government   Japan  

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• 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.

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  Bill Bryson

  Book   Home   Fire  

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• Just because you can make an album on a laptop computer in your back bedroom doesn't mean it's going to be any good. Like any 'product', it has to come from a good original idea. There are no shortcuts!

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  Horace Panter

  Mean   Ideas   Albums  

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.

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  Ian Anderson

  Grateful   Thinking   Iphone  

  735

• [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.

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  Jeanne Birdsall

  Ducks   Cooking   Kitchen  

  457

• Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.

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  Richard Dawkins

  Dark   Civilization   Hydrogen Bomb  

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  1100

• Because of the cumbersome nature of filmmaking, it's only recently that it has become available to the masses, with digital equipment and laptop computers. You can now actually make a pretty serviceable movie for very little money by yourself.

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  John Landis

  Littles   Laptops   Digital  

  Source: collider.com

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• These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.

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  Scott Adams

  Real   Book   Trends  

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

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  Winston Graham

  Typewriters   Empathy   Creative  

  501

• I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

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  A. N. Wilson

  Fake People   Teacher   Laptops  

  1999 In the Observer, 21Mar.

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