Quotes on Pencil

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one.

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.