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is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. (Marshall McLuhan)

is a machine with an educational future. A dilettante may object to its introduction into the schools, but its practical success wherever it has been answers all objections.... [W]riters can do more work on the type-writer with less visual fatigue than with pen and ink. The boys and girls who learn its use in school exercises become acquainted with a labor-saving friend which will stand by them through life.

The type-writer is a machine with an educational future. A dilettante may object to its introduction into the schools, but its practical success wherever it has been answers all objections.... [W]riters can do more work on the type-writer with less visual fatigue than with pen and ink. The boys and girls who learn its use in school exercises become acquainted with a labor-saving friend which will stand by them through life.

is so much more to be reckoned with than the sword.

The typewriter is so much more to be reckoned with than the sword.

is a machine which, when played with expression, is no more annoying than when someone in the room is playing the piano

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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