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tldr-quotes-edition: > <img id="obligatory-clippy-joke" /> > "[MS Word] has become an overbearing boss, one who specializes in make-work. Part of this is Micr
by politician 15y ago
tldr-quotes-edition:
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> "[MS Word] has become an overbearing boss, one who specializes in make-work. Part of this is Microsoft's more-is-more approach to adding capabilities, and leaving all of them in the "on" position."
> "Publishing a two-word sentence as a Web Page, then pasting the source code back into MS Word yields an eight-page document. Egads!"
> "Track Changes ... makes an uneventful edit read like a color-coded transcript of an argument between the world's most narcissistic writer and the world's most pedantic and passive-aggressive copy editor."
> "A tool that's lost its purpose makes a great toy."