It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
ALAN COOPEREnglish bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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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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It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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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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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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