“It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.” WritingMaySoundHoursProductsMusicalScalesParadoxicalFluency Author:Stanley Fish
“They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.” PeopleWantLongEnoughGamesSoundHoursProductsMassWindowBoxesDevicesUsersDesksImpressMicrosoftInterfacesAppliancesNovicesUninterestedUser Interface Author:Erik Naggum
“I never cook at home. After 15 hours at work, I don't have much of a desire to cook at home. I do eat at home, but it's always something simple. Raw nuts. Almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts--these are marvelous products. I am, however, the type that likes to go out to eat a lot. I never tire of it.” HomeDesireHoursSimpleProductsTypeLikesCooksNutsMarvelousTireAlmondsHazelnutsPine Nuts Author:Ferran Adria
“Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as individuals, utilize our principal by-product? Our principal by-product is, of course, our leisure time. Many years of observation forces the conclusion that a man's success or failure in life is determined as much by how he acts during his leisure as by how he acts during his work hours. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how he is likely to spend the latter part of his life.” MenYearsWholeYoungLife IsCoursesIndividualForceHoursProductsWasteConcernDeterminedConclusionObservationEveningYoung ManLatterLeisurePrincipalDividendsSuccess Or FailureFailure In LifeLeisure Time Author:B. C. Forbes
“[Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.” PeopleIfsThinkingCareFunEnjoyUnderstandingHoursInterestingMistakeProductsSkillsCreatingPartnersGatesImmuneGet AheadImmune SystemNew ProductsPeople Skills Author:Bill Gates