American Bee Quotes

“You know you're a Puritan when you feel that even the Bible needs to be cleaned up.”
― James Maguire, American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds

“The big break from the past may come when speech recognition software is perfected. At that point we'll be able to write simply by talking: Speak into your computer's recorder, and it'll do all the messy work of punctuation and spelling. This could result in the elimination of the keyboard, [Dennis] Baron speculates. 'We'd get back to oral composition--reinventing Homer.”
― James Maguire, American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds