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Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even). -- Seth Godin
On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me. -- Will Wright
Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that. -- Sharon Van Etten
I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light. -- Linus Torvalds
I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions. -- Bjork
My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation. -- David Guetta
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop. -- Nicholas Negroponte
I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times. -- Alexis Denisof
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
Coming from my bedroom in San Antonio to this big world and going from singing covers off my laptop to making music in this nice studio, making professional-sounding music - it's just weird. -- Austin Mahone
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. -- Daryn Kagan
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
These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad. -- John Lydon
I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux. -- Donald Knuth
One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails. -- Barton Gellman
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors. -- Douglas Rushkoff
If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop. -- Jonny Greenwood
Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth. -- Helen Thomas
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop. -- Bono
My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records. -- Henry Rollins
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
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
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
If I'm naughty, I'm grounded for two weeks or Mum takes my phone and my laptop because she knows I can't live without them. Sometimes I'll say, 'Mum, do you just want to take my laptop?' because I can still use the Internet on my phone. But now she's going to read this and see what I've been doing. -- Dionne Bromfield
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
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. -- Bill Bryson
I can stay in the bath for, well, the longest has been seven or eight hours. I get completely set up with my laptop so I can watch 'The Sopranos,' put out some scented candles, music. I have a towel nearby so I can dry my hand to change the music or the TV. I make a little heaven for myself. And then I just refill and refill. -- Suki Waterhouse
My laptop has freed me to travel. -- Steven Pinker
I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop. -- Rick Perlstein
I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds. -- Curt Schilling
Can you imagine Grandmaster Flash on a laptop? -- Paul Oakenfold
Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop. -- Nicholas Negroponte
If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing. -- Genereux Philip
The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning. -- Nicholas Negroponte
I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever. -- Mark Boal
I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop. -- Joanne Harris
I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about. -- Sophie Kinsella
I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop. -- Robert Smith
I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore. -- Garrison Keillor
A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet. -- Lolo Jones
I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere. -- Nora Roberts
Enlightenment is when a laptop comes to know that it is a laptop. -- Girish Kohli
I don't go anywhere without my iPod, laptop and at least one book. -- Michael Urie
I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod. -- Orlando Bloom
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back. -- Abbie Cornish
Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often. -- Ronnie Wood
I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore. -- Jill Abramson
I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000. -- Mike May
I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic. -- Carlos Slim
The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop. -- Ed Simons
I love travelling with my laptop because I get a bit nervous if I can't access my e-mails. -- Toby Stephens
I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road. -- Theophilus London
My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business. -- Nicholas Negroponte
Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it. -- Cory Doctorow
In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child." -- Nicholas Negroponte
On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop. -- Curt Schilling
Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be. -- Julie Powell
I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop. -- Lykke Li
I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world. -- Jonathan Lethem
The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12" and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong. -- Linus Torvalds
It's hard to play a laptop in the midst of band and have people want to buy your t-shirts and CD's. -- Girl Talk
UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons. -- Dave Barry
The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy. -- Bill Maher
Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight. -- Jonny Greenwood
I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop. -- Jay Watson
You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories. -- Linda Fairstein
Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last. -- Pharoahe Monch
You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it. -- Vint Cerf
No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!' -- Russell Brand
Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. -- Moby
My laptop broke and because of the storm I could not get a new one. And so I've been promoting my book via iPhone. -- Jami Attenberg
So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it. -- Kevin Smith
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. -- A. N. Wilson
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
Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy. -- Seth Lloyd
Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours. -- Kevin Barry
I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it. -- Margaret Drabble
I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around. -- St. Lucia
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. -- Ryan Hemsworth
Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop. -- Mark Udall
Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young. -- Jennifer Egan
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. -- Charlie Brooker
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
All you need is a laptop or a PC and an Internet connection and you can pretty much do almost anything and create almost any type of company. -- Mark Cuban
I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much. -- Alfie Allen
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. -- Anna Meredith
By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000. -- Werner Herzog
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
The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops. -- Seth Lloyd
Even though I'm totally dependent on modern electronic gizmos, from my laptop to my iPod to my cell phone, I love to embrace old technology or no technology at all. -- John Grogan
I always took pictures, but about five or six years ago, I started taking more behind the scenes at SNL, and now I have some 60,000 photos sitting on my laptop. -- Jason Sudeikis
I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising. -- Tod Machover
Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable. -- Dan Aykroyd
Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and send my work home - I can work anywhere in the world. -- Cary Fukunaga
Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing tracks, that's not the way I do things really. -- Thighpaulsandra
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time. -- Lara St. John
I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf. -- Sara Sheridan
I'm not a great fan of people who suddenly manage to pull out the whole track sounding perfect from a laptop. That doesn't feel like any kind of show to me. -- Thighpaulsandra
I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible. -- Scott Michael Foster
Sure," she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. "What could go wrong?" Michael's eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror. Besides everything, I mean," she said. -- Rachel Caine
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it. -- Peter Kreeft
I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices. -- Okky Madasari
There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet. -- Anna Meredith
It's remarkable to see the advancements since the early days of [Harry] Potter with putting LEDs on everything, pointing sticks and measuring. Just archaic stuff. Now, it's like one guy with a laptop. -- Tom Felton
Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do. -- Douglas Rushkoff
It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it. -- Nicholas Negroponte
The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping. -- Daniel Burka
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
I don't think there is one size that fits all [] I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop. -- Steve Ballmer
YouTube is a new experience for me-someone threw a laptop in front of me and showed me Nic Cage going mad, which has got to be the funniest thing on YouTube. He's so courageous. -- Val Kilmer
I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you. -- Elmore Leonard
I'm a bit of a Luddite, really: I don't use email much, as I started drowning in it. So I said 'screw this' and dumped my laptop, though I've begun to re-engage with it. -- Charles Hazlewood
I try to watch as many movies as possible within a group setting instead of just in front of my laptop. It's better to watch something and chat about it with your programming peers afterward. -- Tim League
Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming. -- Thomas Friedman
I've been approached about doing some live performance collaborations with DJ's. That is something I'd be interested in getting into down the line, but I've worked very hard to distinguish myself as a laptop artist. -- Girl Talk

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