Edge Cases Quotes

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.

They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

I certainly play people on the edge quite a lot. I am interested in what makes people odd and what makes them different. In life I try to play the edges. I have a horror of the herd. There are many, many different sorts of people. A lot of people are fairly uninteresting. I want to play the interesting ones. The villains are always more interesting to portray. Shakespeare knew that.

When you're trying to come up with a good approach to reporting on the bleeding edge of where the conversation's moving, you're just leaving a lot of people who aren't on the bleeding edge of that conversation out.

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

I'm interested in extremes, in many ways.

If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit... What are the limits?

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.

You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.