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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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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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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I want to see reunified Korean peninsula, and I believe that the majority of Koreans in both countries want to see Korea become whole again.
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Not being stupid is important.
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He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.
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The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
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I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
