Fast Quotes (3)
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
In Evan Esar, 20,000 Quips and Quotes (1995), 765. Sometimes seen attributed, probably incorrectly, to Mark Twain. Webmaster has not yet found any primary source, and doubts that it is a Twain quote.
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I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. … The machine has several virtues. I belive it will priont faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It do't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.
Letter (1874). Quoted in B. Blivens, Jr., The Wonderful Writing Machine (1954), 61. Cited in Myron C. Tuman, Word Perfect (1992), 2.
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Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.
In L. R. Parenti, Durata Del Dramma: Life Of Drama (2005), 32.
