"Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error."

-- Kenneth Appel

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“I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.”
“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
“Think about what a user is going to type.”
“I feel that other people's suggestions are very dangerous. Yet, I can't say that they are always destructive or not useful. Perhaps, rather than having other people tell you how you should improve your work, they should just tell you how they understand your work, what they got out of it, so that you can figure out yourself if what you did was right or wrong.”
“Luther Vandross and I met in Roberta Flack's band. He was singing background, I was playing bass, and Roberta was beautiful. She's like the mom to all these young musicians in New York. At that time that I met Luther, I was a musician snob. For me, the singers were just the people out in the front to keep the audience entertained. While the musicians did the real work.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Currently we breed cowards and snitches. Whored society of sons of whores!”

Source : Blog post, November 04, 2010.
“Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.”
“The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.”

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