Technology

If you can't beat 'em, cheat, has long been Microsoft's philosophy.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols—Cyber Cynic

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it

Alan Kay

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Complexity and complication are two different things. Complexity is awesome. Our job is not to remove complexity. Complexity is what gives our lives texture and allows us to help people to solve complex problems.

Josh Clark

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All human progress can be traced to a lazy person wanting to do something more efficiently.

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Engineering is not the art of building devices; it’s the art of fixing problems. Devices are a means, not an end. Fixing problems means first of all understanding them—and since the whole purpose of the things we do is to fix problems in the outside world, problems involving people, that means that understanding people, and the ways in which they will interact with your system, is fundamental to every step of building a system.

Yonatan Zunger

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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Robert Heinlein

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