Bob Frankston Quotes

• Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

  Bob Frankston

  People, Trying, Stories

  "Immortal Code" by Martha Baer, www.wired.com. February 01, 2003.

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• Early Apple machines - don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to keep debugging by isolating a problem, looking at memory in the limited debugging (weaker than the DOS DEBUG and no symbols) patch and retry and then re-program, download and try again. And again.

  Bob Frankston

  Memories, Apples, Trying

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• Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.

  Bob Frankston

  Thinking, Risk, Patents

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• This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic - providing opportunity and not guarantees.

  Bob Frankston

  Opportunity, Important, Guarantees

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