It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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