Quotes by Robert Patterson

• It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me.
• Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface.
• In an organic system you don't waste anything. We need to educate the consumer to accept a tiny blemish on an orange.
• If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.
• Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually.
• I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.
• Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.
• Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key.
• But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me.
• I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.