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Francois-Henri Pinault Quotes

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

Francois-Henri Pinault

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: french
Birth: May 28, 1962

Topics

Technology Computers Way Follow

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

Andrew Weil

Harvard Laboratory Fascinated Visits

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

Robert Powell

Time People World Potential Picture

I was listed in 'Time Magazine''s 'Thirty under Thirty' and have given three TED Talks, too.

Ann Makosinski

Time Three Thirty Given Too Talks

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean Henri Fabre

History Past Memory People Think

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

Amy Sedaris

People Think Choose I Can Pretend

I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat.

Amitava Kumar

Life Death Detail Road Think Feel

If I want to look half decent, a blow dry is a godsend. I'm crap at doing my own hair.

Suki Waterhouse

Hair Doing Look Want My Own Own

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

Mike Birbiglia

Will Always Exist Because Alienation

The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.

Jason Robert Brown

Genius Jury Out Still Whether

I don't even read positive reviews unless they are absolutely certified by eight different people to not contain one thing that could upset me.

Jonathan Franzen

Positive People Me Upset Different

Cable is a great medium. It's something I respond to. I'm not doing sitcoms. People don't find me funny. That's just the way it is.

Diego Klattenhoff

Funny Great People Me Doing Find

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

Donna Leon

Fun Happy Be Happy Have Fun Rich