"Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper."
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"Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place."
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"Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper."
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"Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers."
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"Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs."
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"Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever."
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"Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on."
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"The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink."
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"For years I have read the morning paper and harrumphed. There's a lot to harrumph about now."
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"We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply."
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"Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them."
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"I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is."
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"I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that."
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"Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life."
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"I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers."
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"The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses."
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"I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper."
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"In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are, therefore I am. That is the meaning of the word "interbeing." We interare."
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"Berkshire has the lowest turnover of any major company in the U.S.The Walton family owns more of Wal-Mart than Buffett owns of Berkshire, so it isn't because of large holdings. It's because we have a really unusual shareholder body that thinks of itself as owners and not holders of little pieces of paper."
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"These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination."
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