#manual

I refilled the wineglass and took it with me for a nice long bubble bath, where I settled in with Ambrose's guide for low-voltage outdoor lighting. It wasn't thrilling bubble-bath reading material, but I was impressed by his imagination. You wouldn't know from the writing that he'd never actually seen a low-voltage lighting system in someone's yard, much less installed one himself. His descriptions were clear, colorful, and written with authority. The inscription wasn't bad either: To Natalie, You're a high-voltage system as far as I am concerned. ↗

— Lee Goldberg

#fake #fraudulence #inscription #instruction-manual #instructions

This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#enjoy #life-instructions #operating-manual #life

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #i #know #life #manuals

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#between #chess #dec #enough #i

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end. ↗

— Len Wein

#beginning #different #dozen #end #makes

I class myself as a manual laborer. ↗

— Theodore White

#i #laborer #manual #myself

But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#formal #good #grows #had #like

I never play video games! I'm so bad at it. I have, like, no manual dexterity. ↗

— Kelly Hu

#games #i #like #manual #never

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#confused #constituted #delicate #discouraged #distinctions

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#computer #frustrating #hardware #manuals #reading