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"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
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"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
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"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."
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"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize."
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"The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything."
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"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore."
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"These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries."
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"There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground."
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"We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools."
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"I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now."
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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
Poet
"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."
Dress
"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."
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"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
Computer
"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."
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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."
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"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
Decision-Making
"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
Reading
"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."
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