Bill Buxton Quotes

#1. I'm lucky, always hopeful ... I love my life.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#2. The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

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#3. When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

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#4. At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.

Julianne Moore

#5. Always be a beginner at something, and always be in love with what you are beginning.

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#6. Always be a beginner at something.

Bill Buxton

#7. Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.

Eric Greitens

#8. If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!

Bill Buxton

#9. Must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.

Orson Scott Card

#10. If I can see it, it's a failure

Bill Buxton

#11. If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imaginationto fit in.

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#12. Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer.

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#13. In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

Terry Goodkind

#14. The people are the city.

William Shakespeare

#15. The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today

Bill Buxton

#16. He felt like a man whose fever
had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength - still
weak, but buoyant with the hope of an eventual return to wholeness. The sickness in
his soul, however, laid a jealous claim on him.

Gaelen Foley

#17. The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

Bill Buxton

#18. And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

Ed Miliband

#19. The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.

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#20. Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest when everyone in the studio working on the project has spent time with them.

Bill Buxton

#21. What's so beautiful about girls?" I would implore.
And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely a boy who couldn't possibly have the mental maturity to comprehend such grown-up concepts as love and bleeding vaginas; "You'll understand someday, James.

Jake Vander Ark

#22. My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

Bill Buxton