Software Design Quotes - Page 5

• Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Math, Perfection

  "The Study of Mathematics" (1902)

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• The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.

  Herb Kelleher

  People, Design, Tragedy

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• It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

  Bruce Schneier

  Technology, Hygiene, Police

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• Microsoft unleashed something called Bob, a program that's supposed to make Windows easier to use. Until a Bob helper is born, you can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies.

  Josh Quittner

  Reading, Design, Looks

  "Computers & Technology" by Joshua Quittner, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 1995.

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• A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Drinking, Sea, Design

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• Some cynical people think that every activity must revolve around the mighty dollar, and that anyone saying otherwise is just attempting to delude the public. I will probably never be able to convice them that that isn't always the case, but I do have the satisfaction of knowing that I live in a less dingy world than they do.

  John Carmack

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• ...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

  Neal Stephenson

  Design, Software, Browsers

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