#tails

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#designer #designers #face #i #irritates

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#computers #customers #details #easy #good

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#been #details #finishing #i #just

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#concrete #description #details #dreamed #enables

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#belief #details #easier #either #harder

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#finding #jacket #nixon #out #tails

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#despise #entails #go #i #i see

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#details #distinguish #hard #hear #once

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation