Robin Patricia Williams (born 1953) is an American educator and writer of computer-related books. She is particularly known for her manuals of style The Mac is Not a Typewriter and The Non-Designer's Design Book, as well as numerous manuals for various Mac OS operating systems and applications, including The Little Mac Book.
"Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.""Carpe per diem - seize the check.""Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.""Comedy is acting out optimism.""Cricket is basically baseball on valium.""Do you think God gets stoned? I think so... look at the platypus.""Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.""Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!""I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.""I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.""I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.""If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?""If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.""Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.""No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.""People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.""Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.""See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.""Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"""The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.""The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.""The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'""We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.""We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.""We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.""What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.""When in doubt, go for the dick joke.""When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'""When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?""Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?""You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.""You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
Williams was born October 9, 1953, grew up in San Jose and Fremont, California, graduated from Washington High School in Fremont, and then attended Santa Rosa Junior College.
Williams is an author, college instructor, lecturer, and leads The Understanders, a Shakespeare discussion and reading group. She has been a leader in New Mexico computer-related organizations and The Mary Sidney Society.
She is married to John Tollett and has three children.
An autodidact, she has written, designed, indexed, and produced more than fifty computer-related books, translated into twenty-three languages.
Williams spent years studying William Shakespeare, and in 2006 issued her book Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare? in which she proposed the writer Mary Sidney as a candidate in the Shakespearean authorship question. She also teaches Shakespeare and leads The Understanders' 16-week discussion groups about individual plays.
Of Williams's research, her mentor, Cynthia Lee Katona, professor of Shakespeare and Women's Studies at the Ohlone community college, has said
