Quote

I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

Andy Rooney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
Journalist
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Albany
New York
Andrew Aitken Andy Rooney
Andrew Aitken Rooney
Bills
Underwood
Six
Typewriter
Seven
Typewriters
Computer
Computers
Rich
Gates
Business
Bought
Years
Bill
Suppose

More quotes by Andy Rooney

Image
We aren't consistent in our treatment of animals.
Andy Rooney
Image
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
Andy Rooney
Image
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly. ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.
Andy Rooney
Image
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
Andy Rooney
Image
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Andy Rooney
Image
I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life.
Andy Rooney
Image
A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.
Andy Rooney
Image
There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.
Andy Rooney
Image
Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.
Andy Rooney
Image
I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.
Andy Rooney
Image
Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
Andy Rooney
Image
Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading Confused.
Andy Rooney
Image
I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
Andy Rooney
Image
I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
Andy Rooney
Image
The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.
Andy Rooney
Image
Person-to-person, most people are honest.
Andy Rooney
Image
I've learned... That money doesn't buy class.
Andy Rooney
Image
I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
Andy Rooney
Image
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Andy Rooney
Image
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
Andy Rooney