Guy Kawasaki Quotes

There are programs that don't work.

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

On a Bioware game, if I say anything that's not on the page, It would create a bug in the system, and it would kick back, and I would have to do it again due the technical demands they deal with.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

Your problems with me are not my problems, those are your problems.

You all remember how many years ago, we were younger, it was uppity women who are trying to take our jobs as men. It was those gay people who wanted to make everybody homosexual in our school system. It was Blacks wanted to take white jobs. That's what demagoguery is about. It is to obfuscate the real problems facing our society and find somebody you can blame and rally the American people.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad.

Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.

I suspect victims; they win in the long run.

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given.