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"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."
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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

"I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer."

"It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers."

"The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality."

"We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this."

"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."

"In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator."

"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"

"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"

"On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds."
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"For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care."

"Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people."

"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."

"It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you."

"We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet."

"For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser."

"Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file."

"Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities."

"I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board."

"You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise."
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