Adam Osborne Quotes
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.
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I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups].
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If you've never seen people taking the pledge of allegiance for the first time as U.S. Citizens, it will move you: a room full of people who can really appreciate what I was lucky enough to grow up with, simply by being born in Brooklyn.
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They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
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If you look at the performance of the zero-income-tax-rate states and the highest-income-tax-rate states, I believe a large amount of their difference is due to taxes. Not only is it true of the last decade, but I took these numbers back 50 years. And, there's not one year in the last 50 where the zero-income-tax-rate states have not outperformed the highest-income-tax-rate states.
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The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
