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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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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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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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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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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I write the most sexiest records out.
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You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.
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I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
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I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.
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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.
