#manual

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

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

I wanted to beat the heck out of the JV guys for that, except I wouldn't know what to do in a fistfight without a manual. ↗

— Carrie Harris

#football #funny #manual #nerd #funny

Un guerriero della luce presta attenzione agli occhi di un bambino. Perché quegli occhi sanno vedere il mondo senza amarezza. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#italian #life #manuale-del-guerriero-della-luce #inspirational

It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old. ↗

— Steve Israel

#about #age #cut #drawbacks #estimated

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#imagination #labor #manual #manual labor #poetry

There's something on the Internet called the White Resistance Manual. It's pretty much for white supremacists. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#internet #manual #much #pretty #resistance

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#guidebok #life-lessons #manual #rule #tactics

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#could #examples #got #heck #i

With intellectual labor your hard work is forever, while with manual labor your hard work is temporary and soon forgotten.
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— Jarod Kintz

#forgotten #hard-work #intellect #intellectual #labor