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When I'm on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is really kicking in, I have my iPad too. And my iPhone. And a magazine that I haven't gotten to. And a book under the pillow to my left.
I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.
My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.
In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.
Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.
I wrote 'The Hunger Games' in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my kids sort of took it over.
Papers, books, a laptop, a blackberry, and a half-empty cup of coffee littered its usually pristine walnut surface.
The sofa is the enemy of productivity.
You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.
My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order.
I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.
To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.
I have a gorgeous office at home but tend not to write there because there are so many distractions.
I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.
We're talking about a world where the PC is no longer the center, but just a devicewhere your new devices need to be more portable, more personal.
The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life
Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.
I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.
Perched on the edge of Case's worktable like some kind of state of the art gargoyle,
Yes, that's the laptop I use to write all the Goosebumps books. I know it looks strange. That's because someone's lap is still attached. Don't touch it. I think it's contagious.
I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit.
I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don't have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room.
I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus ... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!
I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.
Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
Working conditions at the computer and long seated sessions can lead to weakness and pronounced posture problems.
The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.
Planning trip around the globe, that is in my room.
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.
A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket
to hold all of mu mistakes.
He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,
He settled into his ergonomically designed, yet inexpensive, chair and logged into his computer. He could do this. Just turn the computer on, shut brain down, and commence typing until fingers fell off. - Captain Lewis
No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
When I'm sitting at my drafting table in my studio, I could really be anywhere.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.
The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of the page. I presume it has some arcane secretarial use, but to me, it's both ugly and confusing.
I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!
Kat is sitting cross-legged on the floor in her underwear and red T-shirt, leaning in to her laptop. I'm on the lip of the bed above her with my Kindle drawing power from her USB port - um, not a euphemism - reading "The Dragon-Song Chronicles" for the fourth time.
A collection of chairs seems to show someone that is used to resting while others get the work done. I have no use for finely crafted furniture.
If you come up with the original idea on your laptop, anything else is an embellishment of that idea. It's nice to have the option to mix inside a big studio, but at the end of the day, it comes from an original spark, which often happens while sitting on the couch.
They've finally comes up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.
Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you're traveling around, it's great to have a lightweight, small form factor.
Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.
I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.
chair in front of the trestle table behind
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.
The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
Looked excitingly purposeful, with large video screens ranged over the control and guidance system panels on the concave wall, and long banks of computers set into the convex wall. In one corner a robot sat humped,
I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.
Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.
A chair that reclines is mighty fine.
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
I like to customize things. I customized the back of old Lincoln to be my mobile office. I had one of those little laptop desks like in a police car, and I had a cooler in there, so that was my mobile office.
This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.
My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.
Sorry, this is the circulation desk. To reserve an item you have to go to the reference desk right over there.
The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.
Life's not meant to be spent in a cubical
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.
I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.
There is no greater joy than putting laptop on your belly and binge watching movies/tv series.
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.
The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book.
Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.
The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things.
I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.
I sit at my desk, and I do not know where the words are hidden!
Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.
Without people around, furniture has nothing to do but bear witness to the structural inadequacies of the human body: How much padding, cushioning, embracing, enfolding, and supporting we had needed just to stumble about through our days!
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
If you're the smartest person in the room ... find a different room. MICHAEL DELL
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
I work on my novels wherever I have a PC, and I have four or five places around the world where I do have a PC. These days you can just slip a little flash drive into your top pocket, fly for 12 hours, come to another place, plug it into a computer and you are away again.
We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.
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've had notebooks, but they are nondescript. All I care about is that they fit in my hand. I scribble down ideas. The problem is my best ideas come while I'm driving or showering.
There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there's a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.
I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.
I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.
That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.
I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.
At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.
I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't be able to write anymore, so I thought I'd go back to the typewriter. But you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer.
Futon World - a wonderful place that becomes slowly less comfortable over time.
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
[C]ouches and chairs covered in scratches aim away from one another, making it possible for a dozen people to sit in this room at once and not have to talk to one other person, which is a miracle in furniture arrangement.