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• Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Smart, Obvious Things

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."

  Evgeny Morozov

  Vocabulary, Accountability, Innovation

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• I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Marketing, Clerks, Dorms

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• Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

  Arthur Erickson

  Entrepreneur, Today, Lasts

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• No organization engaged in any specific field of work ever invents any important developers in that field, or adopts any important development in that field until forced to do so by outside competition.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Hard Work, Science, Organization

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• I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.

  Fumihiko Maki

  Badass, Eye, Bad Ass

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• The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Squirrels, Long

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• I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Eye, Mind

  Paul Caponigro (2002). “New England Days”, p.9, David R. Godine Publisher

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• A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Giving, Able, Ethics

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.12, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Clothes, Joy, Late

  "Benedict Cumberbatch interview: On the couch with Mr Cumberbatch". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2011.

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• Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).

  Larry Tesler

  Simplicity, Complexity, Deals

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• Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.

  Virginia Postrel

  Real, Communication, Mba

  Virginia Postrel (2009). “The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

  Jose Gonzalez

  Lying, Deceit, Nowhere To Go

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• Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

  Eric S. Raymond

  Learning, Bugs, Problem

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• Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

  John Robbins

  Pet, Requirements, Lasts

  John Robbins (2000). “Debugging Applications: Microsoft”

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• What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Moving, Mean

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• Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Japan, Fake, Modern Life

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• I'm not a developer; I am.

  Pablo Picasso

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• I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate.

  Tim Ferriss

  People, Marketing, Fans

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• Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Art, Trying, Patents

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• I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

  Steve Jobs

  Winning, Thinking, Iphone

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.51, Prabhat Prakashan

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• As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

  Kevin McCloud

  Long, Battle, Compromise

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• I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

  Joni Mitchell

  Home, Oxen, People

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• Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Jobs, Thinking, Artist

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• I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway.

  Susan Orlean

  Gadgets, Figures, Worthy

  "In Beta" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 10, 2010.

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