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Robert Patterson

"I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer."

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Donna Grant

"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."

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Donna Grant

"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

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Donna Grant

"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore."

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Donna Grant

"I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time."

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Donna Grant

"But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out."

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Donna Grant

"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."

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Donna Grant

"We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States."

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Donna Grant

"I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now."

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Donna Grant

"So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature."

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Donna Grant

"I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it."

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Robert Patterson
"It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me."

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Robert Patterson
"If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings."

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Robert Patterson
"Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually."

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Robert Patterson
"I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer."

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Robert Patterson
"Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key."

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Robert Patterson
"In an organic system you don't waste anything. We need to educate the consumer to accept a tiny blemish on an orange."

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Robert Patterson
"Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward."

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Robert Patterson
"But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me."

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Robert Patterson
"Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface."

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Robert Patterson
"I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower."

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