Advantage Quote by Robert McNamara

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

— James Dyson

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.…

— Alan Kay

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have…

— Massimo Vignelli

Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

— Norman Foster

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

— Nelson DeMille

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

— Nicholas Negroponte

It's a lot easier to teach someone how to use a computer than it is to teach someone how to be an artist, so…

— Victor Navone

I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

— Jennifer Egan

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

— Sherry Turkle

While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about…

— David Gelernter

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I…

— Stacy Schiff