Quote by David Drake

With all the attention given to the personal computer, it's hard to remember that other companion machine in the room - the printer.

— Ellen Ullman

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo

“Michael was using a laptop computer in desktop fashion.”

— Caroline B. Cooney

“One by one he would conjure up the world’s major electronic papers; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“A page lay on his desk. His fingers held a pen. With these tools he built a world. Perhaps the world he built lived…

— Max Gladstone

“And his life was now, he felt, one monumental unreality, in which everything that did not matter - professional ambitions, the private pursuit of…

— Richard Flanagan

“He took a sheet of paper out of a desk drawer. But what would he write? The day’s work had hardly involved more than…

— Henning Mankell

“Then he began writing the software that would get the microprocessor to display images on the screen. Because he could not afford to pay…

— Walter Isaacson

“My printer printed off blank pages. Is my printer out of ink, or do I just have nothing to say?”

— Jarod Kintz

“He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting, and obsessively…

— Dennis Etchison

“computers on everybody’s desk. The PC, which previously could have been dismissed as a technophile’s tinker-toy, was now becoming the essential business productivity tool.…

— John Wiley and Sons

“You wouldn’t believe the scope for mischief that the Beast of Redmond unintentionally builds into its Office software by letting it execute macros that…

— Charles Stross