Andy Hertzfeld Quotes

But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.

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• My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Life
  • School
  • Earth

• Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • High
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  • Quirky

• Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Good
  • Happiness
  • Flower

• I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Truth

• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

  Sam Hunt
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  • Player
  • Enough

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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  • Fly

• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
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  • Fly

• It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
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• We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Football

• You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

  

  Van Morrison
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• This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
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  • Time
  • Job

• Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

  

  Wendell Berry
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  • Problems

• If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
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  • Apple

• A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Hope
  • Right
  • Wrong

• Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Responsibility

• I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • People

• You don't get many chances in life to make a movie, and if someone says they don't like it, I say, 'I do'. I've made records before, and if someone said it sucked, it bummed me out.

  Dito Montiel
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• Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

  

  Beau Willimon
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• You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery, but a little modesty about it might keep the heat off of us. I can't stand the people who say things like, 'We built this country!' You built nothing. I think the railroads were pretty much up by 1980.

  

  Bill Maher
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• I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age.

  

  Evel Knievel
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  • Wanted

• But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.

  

  Andy Hertzfeld
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