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“I’ve always been a jealous person. I’ve always wanted things that others had. Skills they possessed. Authority they held. Success they enjoyed. But instead of feeling sorry for myself and grow spiteful of those who had, I found it to be the best motivation to imitate, adopt, and strive for the same rewards.”
DHH
“[Interaction designers are the ones to] lead the way out of the chaotic world of misdirected, misdesigned, and mismanaged products to a world where high quality and high tech go hand in hand.”
Alan Cooper
“There’s no reason we should become fearful if a stock goes down. If a stock goes down 50%, I’d look forward to it. In fact, I would offer you a significant sum of money if you could give me the opportunity for all of my stocks to go down 50% over the next month.”
Warren Buffett
“The presence of design should simplify and facilitate our everyday life, enable us to accomplish our tasks more effectively, and remind us to enjoy them along the way.”
Stopdesign | Philosophy
“Rather than figure out how to design *for* your audience, design for yourself after becoming *like* your audience. At that point, I find, snap decisions become good decisions.”
Blinking Out Design, by Jeffrey Veen
“Software development is rarely a sprint, it’s a marathon.”
DHH
“Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It’s cool or it’s crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. It tells you where you are, cues you to what you can do, and facilitates the doing. Style is tautological; it communicates stylishness. In visual terms, style is an aspect of design; in commercial terms, style can communicate brand attributes.”
Jeffrey Zeldman. Style versus Design (PDF)
“At the time when we[Gmail] launched, Yahoo had 4 megabytes, Hotmail had 2 megabytes. So, we released with 1000 megabytes. We didn’t want to be just a little bit better. We wanted to be orders of magnitude better.”
Paul Buchheit
“Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.”
Seth Godin
Google Your Way To A Wacky Office
Inside Google’s wacky new Zurich base for engineers.
Apple's Design Process
Michael Lopp, senior engineering manager at Apple, tries to assess how Apple can ‘get’ design when so many other companies try and fail.
“When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They’ll want to do what’s best for Apple, not what’s best for them, what’s best for Steve, or anybody else.
“Recruiting is hard. It’s just finding the needles in the haystack. We do it ourselves and we spend a lot of time at it. I’ve participated in the hiring of maybe 5,000-plus people in my life. So I take it very seriously. You can’t know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it’s ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they’re challenged? Why are they here? I ask everybody that: ‘Why are you here?’ The answers themselves are not what you’re looking for. It’s the meta-data.” Steve Jobs - On his management style
“Recruiting is hard. It’s just finding the needles in the haystack. We do it ourselves and we spend a lot of time at it. I’ve participated in the hiring of maybe 5,000-plus people in my life. So I take it very seriously. You can’t know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it’s ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they’re challenged? Why are they here? I ask everybody that: ‘Why are you here?’ The answers themselves are not what you’re looking for. It’s the meta-data.” Steve Jobs - On his management style
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the [executive team] could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.”
Steve Jobs - On what drives Apple employees
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