14 August Independence Quotes & Sayings

When watching people use gadgets and software, we need to remember that the way they're making use of their context is largely being determined by the structures available to them. Often, I have heard e-commerce clients complain that their customers are using the online shopping cart improperly, as a sort of wish-list, even when the site provides a separate wish-list function. Though when you look at the environment neutrally as a cluster of environmental structures, it becomes clear that Add to Cart is usually a much easier and quicker function to find and use than Add to Wish-List - the button tends to be more prominent, more available, and the "Cart" itself is always represented somewhere (normally as a concrete metaphor with a picture of a cart) regardless of where the user is shopping. Why wouldn't the user make use of such an available, straightforward environmental structure over a less-available abstraction? — Andrew Hinton

I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes Back, Windows Does Dallas, and Windows Let's All Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont. — Dave Barry

Train yourself for a profession that does not exist. — David Mamet

You've never thought of me that way, not ever, so don't go trying to reinvent history now when I have somebody. — Jenny Han

The whole New Kids thing was crazy. The more it grew, the more I just felt like I was trapped. — Jonathan Knight

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light. — John Kasich

I have since come to understand the reality that sometimes God wants us to go through a process without ever achieving what we thought was the goal. God cares about the journey more than the end result. — Shelene Bryan

I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance in the game, which is more than can be said of tennis. — Jasper Carrott

Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world. — Bryant McGill

Most sportswriters don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. — Charles Barkley

Loved you then. Love you now. — Tammy Falkner

A world without books is like a playground without children.
Natasha Johnstone — Ash Stone

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state ... — James Clerk Maxwell

We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh. — Toni Packer

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst. — Billy Graham