Jef Raskin Quotes
Icons, windows, mice, big operating systems, huge programs, integrated packages.... I would like to remind the world that just because two things are on the same menu doesn't mean they taste good together.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I love myself and I am a good person.
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I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
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I wonder if I worry too much about whether I’m happy or sad anyway. It seems like both of those things show up and leave on their own schedule. Maybe I should just worry about whether I’m doing the appropriate thing or making the appropriate choice.
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Icons, windows, mice, big operating systems, huge programs, integrated packages.... I would like to remind the world that just because two things are on the same menu doesn't mean they taste good together.
