#manual

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it. ↗

— James Levine

#look #manual #most #never #office

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#ditch #hard #i #know #labor

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. ↗

— George Orwell

#joint #language #manual #ought #poets

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#doing #exercise #free #get #happen

I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual. ↗

— Mick Ralphs

#brilliant #got #i #manual #range

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#brighter #came #cannot #central #healthier

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#any #code #going #learn #like

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not. ↗

— Lawrence Kutner

#chopsticks #comes #complexity #despite #even

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#jew #like #little #manual #playboy

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#book #come #day #fantasize #feel