Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.
I hate having to read the manual.
When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.
I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.
You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.
You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.
A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't
Give me a user manual, and I'm happy for hours.
With concerted effort, I can follow written instructions, but don't ask me to simply grasp how to operate a smartphone.
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.
Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.
Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number?
I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book
