"God! I loove this city!"

-- Herb Caen

#Cities Quotes #San Francisco Quotes

“When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.”
“We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.”
“If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.”
“The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.”
“The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.”
“The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the problems of delivering and assimilating new technology into the workplace, we must look to the way humans act and react. In the last 20 years, US industry has invested more than $1 trillion in technology, but has realised little improvement in the efficiency of its knowledge workers Â and virtually none in their effectiveness. If we could solve the problems of the assimilation of new technology, the potential would be enormous.”
“Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.”
“If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.”

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