Andy Hertzfeld Quotes
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
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My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.
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I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And 'literary artist' - poet and novelist - is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel.
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Over periods of 10,000 years the distinctions between Western and Eastern and African cultures lose all meaning. Over a time span of 100,000 years we are all Africans. And over a time span of 300 million years we are all amphibians, waddling uncertainly out of dried-up ponds onto the alien and hostile land.
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There's been talk of YES possibly doing something on Broadway in New York. People have approached me with that idea, and there are discussions about that.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Up for grabs.
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I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
