Jef Raskin Quotes
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
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Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.
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When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
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I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.
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Kids are pretty brutal.
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God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition.
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I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.
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Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
