Andy Hertzfeld Quotes
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
Quotes to Explore
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.
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Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.
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I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
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We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace.
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People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
