Bob Noorda famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.
The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
Acting is a mysterious process.
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
We always get bored with those whom we bore.

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