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"My final and perhaps mv best reason for not owning a computer is that I do not wish to fool myself. I disbelieve, and therefore strongly resent, the assertion

"My final and perhaps mv best reason for not owning a computer is that I do not wish to fool myself. I disbelieve, and therefore strongly resent, the assertion that I or anybody else could write better or more easily with a computer than with a pencil. I do not see why I should not be as scientific about this as the next fellow: when somebody has used a computer to write work that is demonstrably better than Dante's, and when this better is demonstrably attributable to the use of a computer, then I will speak of computcr with a more respectful tone of voice, though I still will not buy one." Well, if he were writing with a computer, odds are good that it would have caught the typos "mv" and "computcr". Frankly, this is a lot of hypocritical horse-puckey. If the author truly didn't want to be shackled to the "energy corporations", then he also wouldn't have a website, nor many other modern conveniences.

adbachman 16y ago
This was clearly copied or transcribed from another source. What gave you the idea that this was Wendell Barry's personal website? Do you have any idea who he is? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry)
kragen 16y ago
> Well, if he were writing with a computer, odds are good that it would have caught the typos "mv" and "computcr". Those are not typos; on neither QWERTY nor Dvorak keyboards are "v" and "y" close together, nor "c" and "e", and the letter sequences "mv" and "tcr" are far less common than the letter sequences "my" and "ter". No, those are OCR errors, made with a computer.
sciolistse 16y ago
While I do not agree with his position, I think it's a little unfair to claim him to be hypocritical based on this article. The linked website is not his, though the text is written by him, and he lives without electricity or running water, and grows his own food (at least he did in the 90's, now I don't know.)

adbachman 16y ago

This was clearly copied or transcribed from another source. What gave you the idea that this was Wendell Barry's personal website? Do you have any idea who he is? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry)

kragen 16y ago

> Well, if he were writing with a computer, odds are good that it would have caught the typos "mv" and "computcr". Those are not typos; on neither QWERTY nor Dvorak keyboards are "v" and "y" close together, nor "c" and "e", and the letter sequences "mv" and "tcr" are far less common than the letter sequences "my" and "ter". No, those are OCR errors, made with a computer.

sciolistse 16y ago

While I do not agree with his position, I think it's a little unfair to claim him to be hypocritical based on this article. The linked website is not his, though the text is written by him, and he lives without electricity or running water, and grows his own food (at least he did in the 90's, now I don't know.)