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Fred Brooks

those software systems that have excited passionate fans are…the products of one or a few…great designers.

A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.

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Theodore von Kármán

I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish.

I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the history of science almost every problem has been worked out by someone else. This should not discourage anyone from pursuing his own path.

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The Odd Life of Timothy Green

That’s what I like about him.

Cindy: You know he’s different?
Joni: That’s what I like about him.

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Archibald MacLeish

The dissenter…resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

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Vincent van Gogh

just let me be myself

Occasionally, in times of worry, I’ve longed to be stylish, but on second thoughts I say no – just let me be myself – and express severe, rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.

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Lewis Gordon Pugh

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me.

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn’t even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

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Mignon McLaughlin

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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Christopher Morley

There is only one success… to be able to spend your life in your own way.

There is only one success… to be able to spend your life in your own way.