Benjamin

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“In general, I have found that people who pour their energy into thinking about an approach and insisting that it is too early to act are wrong just as often as people who dive in and work quickly. The overplanners just take longer to be wrong (and, when things inevitably go awry, are more crushed by the feeling that they have failed). There’s a corollary to this, as well: The more time you spend mapping out an approach, the more likely you are to get attached to it. The nonworking idea gets worn into your brain, like a rut in the mud. It can be difficult to get free of it and head in a different direction. Which, more often than not, is exactly what you must do.”
― Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“the Alto was the first one deliberately designed as a general-purpose “personal” appliance: individualistic and infinitely customizable. The computer was no longer a machine to which man had to adapt, but one endlessly adaptable to every user’s needs.”
― Michael A. Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

“every organization of human beings eventually comes to cherish its own orthodoxies, and PARC was no different.”
― Michael A. Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age