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- If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
- Frank Wilczek (1951 - )
- There is no silver bullet and frankly you probably don’t need one. It is far more important to be able to find the right kind of gun, be able to load the gun … and perhaps most importantly, be able to figure out where the werewolf is.
- Matthew Oliphant, Useability Works, 03-22-2006
- I don't think there is a proper way to celebrate something which makes you happy.
- Matthew Oliphant, Usability Works, 04-01-2006
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
- Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
- There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada. Actually, as the artist gets more into his thing, and as he gets more successful, his number of tools tends to go down. He knows what works for him. Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 10, 08-22-04
- The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago.
Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 14. Dying young is overrated., 08-22-04
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