The IBM ® Selectric typewriter was a radical innovation that completely disrupted the business typewriter market. It transformed the speed, accuracy and flexibility with which people could generate the written word, and helped pave the way for the use of typewriter keyboards as the primary method for humans to interact with computers...
2023/09/05
Todays Thought
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
-Mary Renault, novelist (4 Sep 1905-1983)
Todays Thought
When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.
-Sarah Kendzior, journalist and author (b. 1 Sep 1978)
2023/08/29
Todays Thought
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
-Maurice Maeterlinck, poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate (29 Aug 1862-1949)
2023/08/28
Todays Thought
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (28 Aug 1749-1832)
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