Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

One ruins the mind with too much writing. — One rusts it by not writing at all.

Writing things down is dangerous. Ink can’t be erased without leaving a mess behind.

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you *play* with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine.

After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly - while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.

Absolutely useless. We *had* tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the *delight* in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing.

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

It's queer they'd be allowin' the sick ones to read books when I'll bet it's the same lazy readin' in the house bought the half of them down with the consumption itself.

A louse in the locks of literature.

What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.

If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm.