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Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living. -- Robert Fulghum
Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore. -- Lord Byron
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that. -- Larry Elder
I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you. -- Drew Barrymore
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end. -- Len Wein
I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months. -- Graham Nelson
The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent. -- Donald Knuth
Before I was published, I thought men read car manuals or books about football. But once I started having really serious conversations with male lovers of literature, I let go of that prejudice. -- Michel Faber
There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation. -- Patrick Stewart
Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. -- Howard Staunton
But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing. -- Andy Hertzfeld
Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them. -- Cynthia Breazeal
I'm very impatient, and if I get a new piece of technology, no matter what it is - I recently got the iPhone, which is very exciting - I can't be doing with reading manuals. I want it to work immediately and to do what I want it to do. -- Kimberley Nixon
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle. -- James Surowiecki
Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for that. -- Larry Elder
A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals! -- Bill Bruford
Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music. -- Michael Ruhlman
Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice. -- Jim Rohn
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive. -- Marina Warner
My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings. -- Jeffrey Pfeffer
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. -- Frank Herbert

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