"When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself."

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Source : Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.67, Addison-Wesley Professional

Jef Raskin

#Decision Quotes #Tasks Quotes #Attention Quotes

“I donâ€™t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. Iâ€™m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.”
“Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.”
“The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.”

Source : João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA
“For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.”
“I still am very afraid to Google myself. There are some embarrassing roaming photos that I wish weren't on Google. But I intend to not Google myself.”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com
“You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.”
“Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done.”

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