Adam Osborne Quotes

#1. People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

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#2. Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

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#3. The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

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#4. Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

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#5. Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, Write.

Stephen King

#6. The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

Ed Koch

#7. This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

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#8. Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.

Thomas H. Green

#9. The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

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#10. With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

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#11. There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

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#12. Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

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#13. I confess that I enjoy this vocation, in spite of my sex. I feel a certain thrill, as if I were visiting a lover. But it is money I court, money that woos me, and the intoxicating power to earn a very great deal.

Sandra Gulland

#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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#16. Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.

Michael Moore

#17. I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

Carl Lewis

#18. Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter.

Carl Sagan

#19. I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think some of it is just kind of the shock of realizing that you're approaching middle age, or that you are middle-aged and kind of coming to terms with that in whatever incremental ways.

Amanda Peet

#20. 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.

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#21. Between 50 and 75% of entering freshmen at large Catholic universities typically identify themselves as believing and practicing Catholics. Only 25-50% of graduating seniors do the same.

Peter Kreeft

#22. Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.

Alexandra Robbins

#23. People first. Technology second.

Biz Stone

#24. The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

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#25. I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

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#26. We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation, his or her place on the board of life. Move the pawn to the last row and see her rise in armor, sword in hand.

Gene Wolfe

#27. I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.

Eleanor Catton

#28. I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

Victoria Beckham

#29. There are two things that grant a bit of immortality: books and children

Tiziano Terzani