Neal Stephenson Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas "Fscking" Edison.

  Neal Stephenson

  Shoes, Design, Looks

• ...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

  Neal Stephenson

  Design, Software, Software Design

• Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

  Neal Stephenson

  Design, Wish, Negative

• It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.

  Neal Stephenson

  Design, Principles, Use

  Neal Stephenson (2012). “Cryptonomicon”, p.488, Random House

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