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.
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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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.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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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.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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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.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
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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.
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Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
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You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.
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I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created it myself.
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I always like jumping spiders. They're just so darn cute.
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You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of moral weaklings who excuse themselves with the expression, "That is politics; nor can you be responsible for deception in others. But you are responsible for yourself! There are no collective panaceas - only individual ones."
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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.
