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Typing is no substitute for thinking. -- Richard Hamming
That isn't writing at all, it's typing. -- Truman Capote
I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton. -- Jack Adams
Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming. -- Merlin Mann
I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way. -- Carly Fiorina
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that. -- Carol Burnett
Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged. -- Kevin J. Anderson
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. -- George Weinberg
That's not writing, that's typing -- Truman Capote
Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature. -- John Allen Paulos
Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles. -- Harry Morgan
When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit. -- Tig Notaro
I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language. -- Aberjhani
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page. -- Anne Enright
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life. -- Brian Tracy
To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.' -- John Sayles
My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps typing about it. It was so loud and emotional that I think everyone was exhausted by the second half. -- Pat Forde
Bingo!! Once again, privatization--*total* privatization--is the best solution. Get government, and government-sanctioned business collectives, out of the health 'care' picture entirely and, just maybe, I can go back to typing the word 'care' (in relation to 'health') without the quotes. :-) -- Edward Britton
I revise the manuscript till I can't read it any longer, then I get somebody to type it. Then I revise the typing. Then it's retyped again. Then there's a third typing, which is the final one. Nothing should then remain that offends the eye. -- Robert Graves
I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time - but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted. -- Gretchen Rubin
The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete. -- Sue Grafton
Typing with your fingers or thumbs is sooooo 2012. I tweeted that earlier in the year. I type with my eyes. Not only that, I navigate my computer, create and play music, keep a calendar, conference call, lead web X meetings, text and, obviously, tweet with my eyes. -- Steve Gleason
I change my keyboard between every book. I usually shop around. I'm very passionate about the physical feel of pressing the keys. It's got to have the right springiness. I tend to find the built-in keys very unsatisfying, the keys are low-profile and don't really do anything - I want it to feel like I'm typing. -- John Green
Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too. -- Susan Mitchell
Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point. So I think it is still important to have physical CDs and stuff like that. -- Jason Aldean
I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it. -- Bill Gates
There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence. -- Jon Scieszka
I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips. -- R. L. Stine
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives. -- Paul Kane
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life. -- Brian Tracy
Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you. -- Timothy Noah
Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well. -- Tim Berners-Lee
I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart. -- Raha Moharrak
My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby. -- Luanne Rice
At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear... the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics. -- Sarah Addison Allen
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see. -- Cecelia Ahern
Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It's like FedEx - they let you know when the package gets dropped off. -- Evan Spiegel
I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. -- Tom Clancy
My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10. -- Robert De Niro
I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky. -- Tom Clancy
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters. -- Lincoln Child
The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just don't get appreciably faster. That's because it's become automatic. You've moved it to the back of your mind's filing cabinet. -- Joshua Foer
As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, and I wanted to do that too. And I told my family, I said, 'I'd like to go down and be like William Beebe,' and they said, 'Well, maybe you can take up typing and get to be the secretary of William Beebe or somebody like him.' -- Eugenie Clark
My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood. -- Pat Conroy
BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing. -- Seymour Papert
I'm great at fake typing but in real life terrible. -- Elden Henson
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form. -- Marshall McLuhan
I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!! -- Kanye West
Everyoneâ??s gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots. -- Kathy Reichs
They call it 'surfing' the net. It's not surfing. It's typing in your bedroom -- Jack Dee
An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program. -- Linus Torvalds
To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing. -- Bernhard Goetz
Dracula appeared at a time of great technological revolution, utilizing telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions. -- Chuck Hogan
On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school. -- Burton Cummings
All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing. -- Joe Haldeman
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square. -- Anne Rice
I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually. -- Chris Colfer
SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing. -- Philip Greenspun
Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type. -- Mike Lazaridis
take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning -- Charles Bukowski
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We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it. -- Noam Chomsky
Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King. -- Duane Swierczynski
Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time. -- Rob Pike
I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in. -- Anne Sexton
Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing. -- Quinn Norton
Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own. -- D. B. Weiss
There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence. -- Jon Scieszka
I've been in perfect health and perfectly happy all my life. I don't take any pills; I just get up, clean up after my wife, and start typing every day. -- T.C. Boyle
Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still. -- Roman Payne
Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run. -- Timothy Ferriss
At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing. -- Sara Gruen
Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run. -- Timothy Ferriss
I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm a closet Amberholic. Please help me! -- Amber Benson
After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers. -- Kevin Eubanks
I was really relieved not to have to drag something in front of the camera; I could use a pencil and paper. A regular pencil and typing paper. That appealed to me. -- William Wegman
Atticus "What's this religion going to be called?" Oberon "Poochism" A:"and the name of this holy writ I will be typing for you?" O:"The dead flea scrolls: A Sirius Prophecy. -- Kevin Hearne
When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make a good impression, you should have your manuscript well typed. -- Chinua Achebe
Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about. -- Edward Albee
I bought a dog the other day. . . . I named him Stay. It's fun to call him. . . . "Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!" He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing. -- Steven Wright
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some. -- Stephen Graham Jones
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life. -- Brian Tracy
She's just a little faint," I reassured Mrs. Hammond. "They're blood typing in biology." She nodded, understanding now. "There's always one." I stifled a laugh. Trust Bella to be that one. -- Stephenie Meyer
The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when I write. I'm listening and typing as fast as I'm hearing the words. -- Doreen Virtue

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