It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
ALAN COOPERThere’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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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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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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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’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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