Tablets – Quotes

It looks simple to

It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, … In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power. Esther Dyson

Those who first oppose

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected. Edgar Lee Masters

Companions the creator seeks,

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks — those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. Friedrich Nietzsche

The iPad – contrary

The iPad – contrary to the way most people thought about it – is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It’s more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone operating system. Douglas Rushkoff

Beyond the hype, style,

Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop’s keyboard used to do. Douglas Rushkoff

I don’t think tablets

I don’t think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They’re just not really that, yet. There’s all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. … Read more

I find her anecdotes

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets…. you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking. Dorothy Parker

I don’t think I

I don’t think I ever saw Hank with anybody, say, ‘Let’s go write a song.’ One Sunday morning we left Nashville to go to Birmingham to do a matinee and a night, and he said, ‘Hand me that tablet up there.’ And he wrote down, ‘Hey, good lookin’, what you got cookin” and before we … Read more

But I had never

But I had never drawn on a tablet before. I’ve been doing pencil and paper and film for almost 20 years. I wanted to try something different. I wanted to teach myself some digital stuff in advance of a bigger feature project that’s coming up, and I took to it really quickly. Don Hertzfeldt

I have friends and

I have friends and illustrators who can’t stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There’s a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It’s like drawing on glass. But that didn’t bother me at all. Don Hertzfeldt