Bob Frankston quotes

Bob Frankston quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.”
-- Bob Frankston

Source : "Immortal Code" by Martha Baer, www.wired.com. February 01, 2003.

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“Early Apple machines -- don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to keep debugging by isolating a problem, looking at memory in the limited debugging (weaker than the DOS DEBUG and no symbols) patch and retry and then re-program, download and try again. And again...”
-- Bob Frankston

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“Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.”
-- Bob Frankston

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“This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic - providing opportunity and not guarantees.”
-- Bob Frankston

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“Early Apple machines - don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to keep debugging by isolating a problem, looking at memory in the limited debugging (weaker than the DOS DEBUG and no symbols) patch and retry and then re-program, download and try again. And again.”
-- Bob Frankston

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“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”
“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”
“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
“Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.”

Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes
“Good satire goes beyond the specific point itâ€™s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, youâ€™re not left believing everything theyâ€™re telling you.”

Source : "The Interview: 'Boondocks' Creator Aaron McGruder". Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.
“Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.”
“Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.”
“STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films Iâ€™ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.”
“Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.”

Source : "A comforting way of death" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2002.
“There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.”

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