#wastebasket

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. ↗

— John Pople

#cover #discarded #found #i #read

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#evolved #failures #into #process #ratio

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#big #enter #everything #first #general

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. ↗

— Robert Orben

#desk #happiness #small #very #wastebasket

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#dead #fruit #hairy #i #me

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#did #i #students #told #wastebasket