A Quote by Scott Adams
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.
It just picks its friends more carefully than others.
Tribalism isn't a bad thing. If you're a Facebook user, or Twitter user or Foursquare user or LinkedIn user, those are all tribes... and they may even have sub-tribes. It's not pejorative, it's declarative.
Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.
The problem was, I was labeled as trouble - so I was like, 'Trouble? I'll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!' No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong.
The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However, the corollary states that the innovation will occur elsewhere. No matter how many people you hire. So the only way to get close to the state of the art is to give the people who are going to be doing the innovative things the means to do it. That's why we had built-in source code with Unix. Open source is tapping the energy that's out there.
A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.
The government of India is consistently very advanced. When the world was hesitant on UNIX, we were the first to move in; the RBI said that all banks will implement on UNIX. It worked!
...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?
The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life.
User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world.
I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's nothing that she does that isn't funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It's so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the 'Housewives' with 'Queen of Jordan,' their show-within-the-show.
It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.
The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to speak their minds online.
Who would you talk to? That is the first question for almost any startup that you need to answer. Who is my user and where am I going to find them?
Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.
GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.
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