Jef Raskin Quotes

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Jef Raskin

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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Yourself

• I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Day

• Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Character
  • Book
  • Me

• I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Read

• My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • School
  • Day
  • Waiting

• I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Culture
  • You

• As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Real
  • Today
  • Problem

• And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Work
  • Best
  • Texas

• I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Country
  • Home
  • Player

• I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Things
  • Doing
  • Paper

• I've done every diet there is.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Done
  • Diet
  • Every

• Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • People
  • Real
  • Cool

• As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Great
  • Long
  • Business

• Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • World
  • Friends
  • Hope

• Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Great
  • Job
  • Career

• Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Ideas
  • New
  • Adoption

• “All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity.”

  

  Annie Barrows
  • Story
  • Lights
  • Objectivity

• When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical. I doubt if you get another 'Wu-Tang Clan.' That might be harder than getting the new 'Jackson Five.' Certain groups you only get one time, and we just happened to be that group.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Time
  • Success

• I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

  

  Dorothy Kilgallen
  • Important

• An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

  

  Jef Raskin