Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes
For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
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I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.
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The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.
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For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
