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All communication will some day be reduced to tweets -- small bursts of information 140 characters in length. They are the bumper stickers of the 21st century. Here are some of mine.

Friday, June 10, 2011

All communication will some day be reduced to tweets -- small bursts of information 140 characters in length. They are the bumper stickers of the 21st century. Here are some of mine.

They wrapped my vehicle with graphics: now it’s a minivan gogh.

Libraries are multi-story buildings.

Print is about making something out of nothing and then selling it.

Dijon vu -- the same mustard as before. Deja moo -- the same bull as before.

Acronym abuse: the Mnemonic Plague.

An apostrophe is high comma. A catastrophe is high drama.

Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?

The Pyramids: what vision, determination, and an in exhaustible supply of cheap labor can accomplish.

Cyanide: death by process blue.

Monk Karaoke -- a game of chant.

One thing that is constant is change, especially if you’re a cashier.

The future of the book is the book.

Will blog for food.

Went to the cheaper Madame Tussauds Wax Museum -- all the statues had wicks coming out of their heads.

Digital photography lets you reminisce immediately.

Knowledge is knowing what to do when; skill is knowing how to do it now; wisdom is not doing it at all.

I could not afford the book on how to be happy without money.

What is the shape of the earth? Pretty bad.

Half the lies people tell are not true.

Some of us are so good at learning the tricks of the trade that we never learn the trade.

Definition of a book -- what they make a movie out of.

Some people have ringing in their ears; I have ring tones.

Prepress Specialist:  An ingenious system that converts caffeine into printable files.

Common sense isn't.

Light travels faster than sound. Thus some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Wisdom comes with age. Death comes with age. Maybe stupid isn’t so bad.

The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference -- too much pi.

I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it was an optical Aleutian.

No matter how much you push the envelope, it is still stationery.

Beam me up, Adobe. They are working on PDF for people—Portable DNA Format. Just embed your genetic makeup and you are fully transportable over the Internet. Watch that low compression mode.

Some call it a PC; I say it is a gateway to madness.

Fontificating -- It was the best of Times; it was the worst of Times.

A upside-down poet writes inverse.

Oxymoronic? Selling “No Soliciting” signs door to door.

If TVs are any bigger, they may put elevators in them.

World peace through kerning.

A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

I’m working on a digital sundial.

The dead batteries were given out free of charge.

What’s the difference between artificial reality and virtual reality? One is not real and the other is not really.

Digital video: silicon cinema.

Cyberspace: an EM space on steroids.

Desktop publishing has created the cave art of the 21st century.

The business of business is the re-invention of business.

Old typographers do not die; they decompose.

The future will be decided by a committee.

Who rates Consumers’ Report?

If all forecasters were laid end to end, they still would not reach a conclusion.

Tablet PCs -- take one every hour.

My karma ran over my dogma in front of my house at Six Sigma.

If you attend a convention, it’s amazing how many un conventional people you meet.


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About Frank Romano

Frank Romano has spent over 60 years in the printing and publishing industries. Many know him best as the editor of the International Paper Pocket Pal or from the hundreds of articles he has written for publications from North America and Europe to the Middle East to Asia and Australia. Romano lectures extensively, having addressed virtually every club, association, group, and professional organization at one time or another. He is one of the industry's foremost keynote speakers. He continues to teach courses at RIT and other universities and works with students on unique research projects.

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