Prototype Quotes

I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It’s helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

There were no prototypes for me – the telly was full of little blonde juveniles.

I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.

We got involved with the RepRap Project, a community focused on making 3-D printers that could make copies of themselves and help create a world without money. We started making prototypes.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.

Jeron Lanier and ‘Lawnmower Man.’ That was VR. And there was the VFX1, that big giant VR prototype unit, and I was like, ‘I am going to save my money and get one of those.’ And then VR just sort of drifted away.

The problem with prototypes is they don’t always work.

What my voting record reflects is constantly looking to improve the amount of resources we having going into research, development, and prototypes we have going into renewable energy sources.

If you are truly innovating, you don’t have a prototype you can refer to.

Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We’ve been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.

Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.

I’m never what anybody envisions as the prototype of a character. My looks are just odd enough so that I’m just not what people think of.

Blockchain is moving beyond cryptocurrency, and it’s worth paying attention – especially since successful prototypes show that blockchain, also known as distributed ledger technology, will be transformative.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

I’m proud that Della was sort of a prototype for TV secretaries. There really was no such established character on TV when ‘Perry Mason‘ came along.

To take on the jobs of tomorrow, students must become more than good test takers. They need to become makers who design, sketch, build, and prototype. And their classrooms will need more than a chalkboard and a set of textbooks.

I’ve never been like Angelina Jolie, who at one time was spewing out this prototype Bad Girl stuff for people to consume. I’ve never boxed myself in that way. People can create boxes for me by all means, but it doesn’t mean I’m going to step inside them.

Our culture is so inundated with Freudian prototypes, and I think that ‘Twin Peaks‘ came up with a whole new Pandora‘s Box of outlandishly mental, out of balance people that have never been described or have been noted by the psychiatric community.

The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I’ve often found myself following in their footsteps – although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson – from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.

Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls’ education.

Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you’re building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version – so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.

I haven‘t been a prototype mother.

The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions of little magnetic particles, black on one side and white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber.

They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.

I love taking an idea… to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.

I focus on consumer Internet. Sometimes it’s a working prototype; sometimes it’s an idea on a napkin. I don’t do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups – it’s the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.