Mark Twain

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. . . . The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. . . . He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.