"Even in his time in Double A, we've seen his stuff improve.
With the emergence of a life form that could invent new stuff, improve it, trade it with others, and pass the know-how down through generations, the era of cultural evolution had begun.
"I get to do the stuff that improves people's lives.
I expect some of them to be a bit sore about the change, but the classic Catch 22 of software is that you can't give something away forever and continue to make new stuff or improve it.
Other studies show that the green stuff can improve cognitive functions, treat cervical cancer, help PTSD patients, and block the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Stuff that tends to appeal to girls are things that have a medical connotation or things that are about environmental engineering, stuff that improves the environment and the way in which we live.
Although the name implies that this company makes stuff that improves one's ability to see with something like, say, eye glasses, contacts, perhaps even a monocle, they do not.
"All the guys that work for me work for nothing, and the job satisfaction of seeing these guys change and...build confidence...is just absolutely amazing, and I think, if nothing else, if people want to call it soft outcomes-I mean, we have got figures of how we've improved stuff, you know...I can give you some statistics on that, on how we've improved stuff in 2009".
The buttons, the color scheme, all that kind of stuff we've improved.
This was around the same time that I started getting into really terrible, abrasive music like Throbbing Gristle, which meant I was able to tolerate my own really crap stuff until I improved and got to the next stage.
