Adam Osborne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.
-- Adam Osborne

#Encouraging #Mistake #Perfect
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
-- Adam Osborne

#Mistake #Technology #Thinking
We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
-- Adam Osborne

#Successful #Numbers #Ibm
This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
-- Adam Osborne

#Fun #Games #People
There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
-- Adam Osborne

#People #Special #Tape
Adequacy is sufficient.
-- Adam Osborne

#Adequacy
I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
-- Adam Osborne

#Believe #Leaving #Mind
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
-- Adam Osborne

#Creating #People #Guy
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
-- Adam Osborne

#Machines #Software #Hardware
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
-- Adam Osborne

#Lying #People #Design
I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
-- Adam Osborne

#People #Giving #Car
Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
-- Adam Osborne

#Jumping #Decision #Entrepreneur
Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions
-- Adam Osborne

#Decision #Marketing #Advertising
The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
-- Adam Osborne

#Smart #Hands #Lunch
Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.
-- Adam Osborne

#Adequacy

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