Quotes About Prototypes

#1. It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

Marcel Wanders

#2. We got involved with the RepRap Project, a community focused on making 3-D printers that could make copies of themselves and help create a world without money. We started making prototypes.

Bre Pettis

#3. most breakthrough products result from a long cycle of hit-and-miss prototypes, the steady accumulation of features, and a timely synthesis of existing technologies.

Brent Schlender

#4. With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo ... that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn't going to work.

Jonathan Ive

#5. When Thomas Edison's factory burned to the ground in 1914, destroying one-of-a-kind prototypes and causing $23 million in damage, Edison's response was simple:
"Thank goodness all our mistakes were burned up. Now we can start fresh again.

Thomas Edison

#6. Think of prototypes as a funny markup language
the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

Larry Wall

#7. A prototype is a representative model or simulation of the final system. Unlike requirements documents and wireframes, prototypes go further than show and tell and actually let you experience the design.

Todd Zaki Warfel

#8. Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees.

Alan Huffman

#9. most prototypes are built to answer questions such as, "Can we build it?" or "Will it work as expected?" instead of focusing on questions such as "Should we build it at all?" or "If we build it, will people buy it and use it?

Alberto Savoia

#10. There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes.

Bobby Rahal

#11. The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

Laurie Anderson

#12. There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

Hunter S. Thompson

#13. He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.

Eugene V. Debs

#14. I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

Timothy Leary

#15. I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.

Palmer Luckey

#16. Paper and digital prototypes, PowerPoint mockups, personas, filmed user testimonials, and 3D printed objects can be used to build excitement, communicate vision, and share understanding.

Alden Globe

#17. He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!

Tom Peters

#18. I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That's how I came up with a solution. So I don't mind failure.

James Dyson

#19. First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers

Simon R. Green

#20. God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

Graham Greene

#21. My father actually lived next door to Hobie Alter [creator of the Hobie catamarans]. So growing up, we had prototypes and experimental things that we could play with; it was just fabulous. I actually bought my first surfboard in junior high. I saved my money.

Bo Derek

#22. As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

Vivienne Westwood

#24. When we make those guitars we make tons of prototypes, I have all those. And once a guitar has come out there's all different versions and colours and woods and I have all those. There's hundreds of them.

John Petrucci

#25. System 1 represents sets by averages, norms, and prototypes, not by sums. Each

Daniel Kahneman

#26. Rasala had named the two new prototypes Tartis and Gallifrey, after the home planet and time machine of Dr. Who, the protagonist of a science fiction show on public TV.

Tracy Kidder

#27. wished she had been around the castle the last few days, because he knew she would have found playing with the new vampire weapon prototypes entertaining.

Tenaya Jayne

#28. America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect.

John Leguizamo

#29. There are children in America who are going to be separated from their parents 'cause their parents are going to be deported while the children who were born here can stay. We are forgetting the human beings.

Rush Limbaugh

#30. And let them pass, as they will too soon,
With the bean-flowers' boon,
And the blackbird's tune,
And May, and June!

Robert Browning

#31. Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.

Clementa C. Pinckney

#32. This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#33. There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Simone Weil

#34. Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

Brit Marling

#35. To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#36. Give me my powers back, Artemis, or I'll take your daughter's life. (Sin)
Damn boy, you have an unholy gift for pissing off people. Why don't you tell her that dress makes her look fat while you're at it? (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#37. Remember: what consumes us, controls us. As

Lysa TerKeurst

#38. Not even on the most distorted and contracted theory of good which ever was framed by religious or philosophical fanaticism, can the government of Nature be made to resemble the work of a being at once good and omnipotent.

John Stuart Mill

#39. All art needs to be funny, sad and a little disturbing simultaneously or else it's not art.

Ezekiel Tyrus

#40. Georgina, I need your help'
Reaching into her purse, she pulled out two pages torn from magazines.
'With wha-oh' My stomach twisted uncomfotably, and I hoped I wouldn't be joining Doug in the bathroom. The pages showed photos of wedding dresses.

Richelle Mead

#41. Now that system has weakened to the point he and his worst disciples are able to be free. He wants total mayhem and bloodshed. Most of all, he wants Sin to suffer for helping to lock him in there. (Zakar)
Oh, this just gives you the warm and fuzzies, doesn't it? (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#42. You were the only one, Andre. It's always been you.

Lara Adrian