Walter Bender quotes

Walter Bender quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.”
-- Walter Bender

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“Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.”
-- Walter Bender

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“Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease,”
-- Walter Bender

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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”
“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”
“Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.”
“I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.”

Source : "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.
“Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction if you dont choose the right thing to wear underneath!”

Source : Source: www.97thfloor.com
“The next time you get scared, get sacred!”
“I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.”
“First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.”

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