--- title: "1 Disk Quotes By Jessica Livingston" description: "1 Disk quotes by Jessica Livingston. Plus more from Jessica Livingston and more Disk sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11f/jessica-livingston-20699_all-the-best_my-skills-weren-t-that-i-knew-how-to-des_2244458.png" --- > [My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was that, when the time came and I had to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/my-skills-weren-t-that-i-knew-how-to-design-a-floppy-disk-i-knew-how/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11f/jessica-livingston-20699_all-the-best_my-skills-weren-t-that-i-knew-how-to-des_2244458.png) ## More by Jessica Livingston > [“A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/a-lot-of-the-machines-that-google-is-built-on-commodity-is-the-polite/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [Cofounders will endure so much together that their relationship is often compared to a marriage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/cofounders-will-endure-so-much-together-that-their-relationship-is/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/starting-a-startup-is-a-process-of-trial-and-error-what-guided-the/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/innovations-seem-inevitable-in-retrospect-but-at-the-time-it-s-an/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/finding-a-programmer-to-work-with-if-you-don-t-already-know-one-will/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [“Wozniak: Well, actually we never did much in the garage. People think we had a garage where we sat down with soldering irons and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/wozniak-well-actually-we-never-did-much-in-the-garage-people-think-we/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [“Even though it seems like it's big business and impersonal, and "they" take care of it, it really isn't. There is no "they." It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/even-though-it-seems-like-it-s-big-business-and-impersonal-and-they/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/programmers-have-not-been-professionals-because-they-haven-t-really/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [“I think there are very few people who have a capacity to see the future. So it can be difficult when you are talking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/i-think-there-are-very-few-people-who-have-a-capacity-to-see-the/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/finding-a-technical-cofounder-would-have-been-difficult-for-me-i-was/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [“Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/paul-buchheit-then-you-have-what-we-do-with-pcs-and-that-s/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [People think startups grow out of some brilliant initial idea like a plant from a seed. But almost all the founders I interview change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/people-think-startups-grow-out-of-some-brilliant-initial-idea-like-a/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [“We need to make sure that we are allowing students to be exposed to future technology and not reducing it to current—what a lot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/we-need-to-make-sure-that-we-are-allowing-students-to-be-exposed-to/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/investors-most-of-them-have-a-herd-mentality-they-want-to-invest-only/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) > [You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/you-ve-got-to-say-you-are-a-step-ahead-of-where-you-actually-are-to/) [Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/disk/jessica-livingston/#itemlist", "name": "1 Disk Quotes By Jessica Livingston", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was that, when the time came and I had to get one done, I would design my own, fresh, without knowing how other people do it. 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