Development Quotes

At least once in your life when you are talking to yourself, try to have some respect and listen to your interlocutor until he finishes!

Who are you? In constant solitude you will search for yourself. While you bump into millions of your various characters, understand this: You are the one who has the possibility to create those characters! You are what you make of yourself!

It Begins With You

“Imagine a world where people always do what they say they will do. They follow through, they communicate ahead of time if something gets in the way, and don't make promises they can't keep. Are you one of those people? The world is what you make it.”

I never had to ask customers what they wanted. If it’s something truly revolutionary, they won’t be able to help you.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Many leaders have been made by accident, circumstance sheer grit or will than have been made by all leadership courses put together

You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop and execute a good idea.

Microformats are the Urban Dictionary of HTML.

The next 12 months for TV interfaces: way more personalization. Although the barriers are who shares who’s data with who. We’ll see it at the app and platform level. Across multiple devices. But (the questions remains) can TV be made more relative to the household based on all of the data?

Linux users are the flagellant monks among us.

Apple has always tried to create an emotional response. They’ve designed the software to make you feel a certain way. They use terms like ‘magical’ and ‘beautiful.’ The way Apple goes about controlling its ecosystem feels very much like the way the church controlled content.

We’re in an age today where the ideologies that form who we are and what we believe are being shaped by the technology developers. By the people that control content. A small algorithm that puts one news story in front of another. The people who are pushing those ideologies - for good or for ill - are folks like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and you and I.

The cathedrals were designed to illicit a response. The tech devices are designed to be magic like the cathedrals were designed. Look to the future…the devices are getting more intimate. More powerful.

Look at who is influencing the influencers. The tech media blogs: Engadget. Gizmodo. Mashable. And the tech leaders. The Steve Jobs. The Bill Gates. The Mark Zuckerbergs.

Google’s mission is to compile all the world’s knowledge and distribute it in a way that is accessible. They are also working on translation. That will be an extremely powerful technology. Imagine if you could get translations to the Middle East protests in real-time.

Apple changed the game when they introduced the app store. They created an eco-system. They control the content of everything you see and everything you do.

We f***ed up email.

More data is created in 48 hrs than was created from the beginning of time to 2003.

There’s not a lot of female founders, not a lot of female programmers. We’re not trained to think of ourselves in these roles. So many end up in marketing and business.

Steve jobs doesn’t say, ‘When you buy an iPhone, you buy $188 of parts, built in China where lots of people commit suicide…and you’re saddled with AT&T, the worst wireless network in America. Jobs doesn’t tell you that…he sells a dream.