Brenda Laurel Quotes

#1. You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.

Brenda Laurel

#2. The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Good. Now I've got work to do," I said, pulling away. "Some of us have jobs, you know."
He grinned, "Yeah. Suckers.

Alicia Kobishop

#4. Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.

Jamais Cascio

#5. The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the barbarians. Many are the resources of courage and poverty.

Edward Gibbon

#6. Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

Brenda Laurel

#7. Sometimes I have a terrible suspicion that the whole tragedy, from first to last, has no meaning.

Sarah Gainham

#8. I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

Laura Benanti

#9. Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.

Brenda Laurel

#10. Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.

Brenda Laurel

#11. I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel. I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community.

Mr. T

#12. Every intelligent being enjoys complexity.

Brenda Laurel

#13. When you really want to find someone, it isn't that hard. I should have known all along that she wasn't looking. I feel so stupid.
There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved.

Nina LaCour

#14. I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

Brenda Laurel

#15. You can't stop the rain by worrying about it.

Tadahiko Nagao

#16. A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

Brenda Laurel

#17. If have got my spindle and my distaff ready
my pen and mind
never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

J.G. Holland

#18. The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.

Brenda Laurel

#19. I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

Brenda Laurel

#20. When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.

Brenda Laurel

#21. Finance as taught in universities is generally divided into three areas: (1) financial
management, (2) capital markets, and (3) investments.

Eugene F. Brigham

#22. You don't need anyone's permission to do what you love. You should just do it.

Miranda Kenneally

#23. The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.

Brenda Laurel

#24. Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

W.B.Yeats

#25. Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever
half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.

Abraham Lincoln

#26. Gratitude causes us to no longer desire a different life. Instead, it causes us to make the most of the one life we already have.

Josh Becker