Top 22 Michael Birch Quotes
#1. What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.
Edward Tufte
#3. Gotta use your brain, it's the most important part of your equipment.
Kevin Andrews
#4. Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
#5. Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.
Parris Glendening
#6. One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well, as many have discovered, you don't really know what you'll do in the dark till the lights go out.
James Carlos Blake
#7. When Pang was barely out of toddlerhood, she zoomed in and out of the apartment unsupervised, playing with plastic bags and, on occasion, with a large butcher knife.
Anne Fadiman
#8. If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.
Michael Birch
#9. It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me - out of college and all - Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was hanged like a dog, and sun-dried like the rest, at Corso Castle.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#10. I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.
Michael Birch
#11. I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting.
Brenda Russell
#12. When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.
Michael Birch
#13. There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.
Marilyn Hacker
#14. The problem with Myspace was always that it was never as strong a product as it needed to be. It left itself vulnerable to competition. It was only a matter of time before someone created something better.
Michael Birch
#15. Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.
Michael Birch
#16. I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.
Michael Birch
#18. Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.
Michael Birch
#19. I have always been very tech-focused, which you may almost say is the traditional CEO in Silicon Valley.
Michael Birch
#20. I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.
Michael Birch
#21. Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.
Osho
#22. People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.
Michael Birch
