"For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest idea is to make a computer so exciting, so wonderful, so interesting, that we never want to be without it. A less-traveled path I call the "invisible"; its highest idea is to make a computer so imbedded, so fitting, so natural, that we use it without even thinking about it."

-- Mark Weiser

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.”
“Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?”

Source : Machado de Assis (1998). “Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas”, p.127, Atelie Editorial
“My wife has a whim of iron”
“I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.”
“There is no there there.”

Source : Everybody's Autobiography ch. 4 (1937)
“There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.”
“The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.”
“"I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.”

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