Top 125 Laptop Quotes

Not everyone can afford to plunk down hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on a laptop.

Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can’t play with her because I’m working. Keep in mind that working consists of me at home with a laptop on my lap sitting on the couch. It doesn’t look like working. I don’t have a hammer or anything.

I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I’ll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.

I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

I have studios in the different places where I live – in Ibiza, Paris and London – but they’re not crazy studios, they’re just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It’s a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it’s more connected to the world.

I have no system of writing. It’s chaos. I could be upside down on my bedroom floor; I’ll be scribbling on a pad that I’ll then lose. I’ll be on the toilet with my laptop on, sitting in the pub with my iPad.

Tablets are more intuitive than a PC or laptop. They also have more real estate than a smartphone.

I draft on the computer. I have a really giant screen that attaches to my laptop, and then I have a humongous digital drawing tablet called a Cintiq. It sits at all different angles, and it’s so big that it would take two people to move it.

I do use a laptop, but I’m very technophobic. I’ve never downloaded anything. I’ve never bought anything on Amazon. I’m really ridiculous. I don’t know what it is.

When I went into the computer shop to change my last laptop, the 19-year-old kid behind the counter looked at my six-year-old model and described it as ‘vintage.’ ‘Vintage?’ I wanted to scream. ‘Son, I’ve got shirts older than you! I own underpants that have seen more of the world!’

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we’re the laptop generation.

I haven’t fully moved over to the iPad. At any given time, I have about four DVDs in my pocket. I’m constantly screening ‘Top Chef,’ ‘Housewives,’ and all the other shows we have in development, racing to meet a deadline. So I pretty much bring my laptop everywhere.

I take my laptop everywhere with me, and I will write on long journeys. I will write sitting in my hammock in the middle of the rainforest. When everybody else is chilling out after filming, I am usually writing!

I am so appalled by the whole social media thing. I don’t get it; it doesn’t appeal to me. Neither does a computer or working on a laptop.

Somehow, the words don’t have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That’s how I start. Once I’m off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop – not that what I do is poetry.

I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it’s all in your head; you don’t need materials apart from the laptop. It’s like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.

I work late nights catching up on emails, and then, in the mornings, I just hop on my laptop right away. Then, every other day, I’ll hop into the shower! My husband is horrified that I don’t shower every day.

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they’re a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they’re a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what’s far out and what’s reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

When I see people who have to fly to a city every day with a laptop and stuff, that’s why – I don’t think I could manage that.

I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can watch movies and listen to music. And my Gameboy. That’s a good time-killer.

You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That’s why the real con men are gone.

I love travelling with my laptop because I get a bit nervous if I can’t access my e-mails.

I try not to think too much about an audience when I’m writing the first draft of a book – at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what I’ve written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

Constant romance with my laptop through the day is a must for me, whether I am using it to send emails or just google something, which I do quite often, as I love to keep myself well-informed with my Blackberry.

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There’s not a CD player in sight.

The reason I’m an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn’t wait for the Powerbook.

Facebook was founded on February 4th, 2004, and around February 5th, we were feeling pretty confident it would be bigger. We would see Facebook on every single laptop in class. We knew there was a bigger story here.

All of my memories are now on hard drives. I’ll change phones or I’ll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.

I watch TV on my TV pretty exclusively. However, when I’m on that long flight between Los Angeles and New York, a great way to pass that time is to download movies on iTunes and watch them on my laptop.

I’m not much of a reader; I’m more of a laptop person. I would never consider travelling without it.

I made a lot of the first album on a laptop in my bedroom after college and after work.

As an assistant, when you wake up in the morning, you’re opening your laptop and watching film. Then the game starts, and you’re watching it until you finally fall asleep.

So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that’s how I suspect a lot of people do it.

Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn’t believe I’d actually get to do it for a living.

If I’m naughty, I’m grounded for two weeks or Mum takes my phone and my laptop because she knows I can’t live without them. Sometimes I’ll say, ‘Mum, do you just want to take my laptop?’ because I can still use the Internet on my phone. But now she’s going to read this and see what I’ve been doing.

I’ve tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good.

Gutless is a strong word, do you know what I mean? It doesn’t take a lot of guts to sit behind a laptop at a match and write it.

In terms of the technology I use the most, it’s probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That’s how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.

A friend of mine created an email ID for me, and I was completely hooked soon after. I would mail friends constantly and lug my laptop everywhere just to listen to some music.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It’s in the education business.

I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That’s they way I do it.

My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I’m abroad.

I’m a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.

Like everyone else, I use my phone a lot, and being a screenwriter, my laptop is my life.

I don’t think I’m unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

I’ve become President of the Author’s Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I’m crazy about it. It’s got some bugs, but it’s basically replaced my laptop. I’m very happy with it.

I used to spend hours on the laptop watching free kicks on YouTube – again and again. You obviously learn a thing or two.

I’m a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that ‘Presumed Innocent’ brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.