The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake.
ADAM OSBORNEThe most valuable thing you can make is a mistake.
ADAM OSBORNEThey’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
ADAM OSBORNEWe can learn from IBM’s successful history that you don’t have to have the best product to become number one.
ADAM OSBORNEThe future lies in designing and selling computers that people don’t realize are computers at all.
ADAM OSBORNEOnly taking the best evidence available at the present time,
ADAM OSBORNEInterpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
ADAM OSBORNEAdequacy is sufficient.
ADAM OSBORNEThis is the ultimate con game – I’m having fun and people pay me to do it.
ADAM OSBORNEI take what I see work. I’m a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing,
ADAM OSBORNEWith bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it’s still a good buy.
ADAM OSBORNEYou can’t learn anything from being perfect.
ADAM OSBORNEThere’ll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
ADAM OSBORNEPeople think computers will keep them from making mistakes
ADAM OSBORNEVenture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
ADAM OSBORNEAdequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.
ADAM OSBORNEThe guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don’t understand computers.
ADAM OSBORNE