August 2010
2 posts
2 tags
“We are all better off going with the system put in place by the creators of the...”
– chpwn, creator of the popular iPhone tweak ProSwitcher, On Multitasking
1 tag
“Wat ik voor mijn werk nodig heb, is een computer, een verbinding met de wereld...”
– Harry Starren, over kantoorwerk (via tomv)
June 2010
1 post
1 tag
“When you need to have a meeting, have a meeting. When you need to collaborate,...”
– Seth Godin, waving Goodbye to the office
May 2010
1 post
4 tags
“Everything about web architecture; HTTP, HTML, CSS, is designed to serve and...”
– Ben Ward, Understand The Web
April 2010
8 posts
3 tags
“Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to...”
– Steve Jobs - Thoughts on Flash (via minimalmac)
5 tags
“Like “2.0”, companies are coming to see “open” as just...”
– Chris Messina, on “open” and the cigarette industry, in Open-washing and the CamelOpenCircle …Jerk
3 tags
“The rest of the market, […] insists on peddling either outright crap or...”
– Loper OS, Non-Apple’s Mistake
3 tags
“it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than...”
– Clay Shirky, The Collapse of Complex Business Models
1 tag
WatchFred Wilson, The 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps (slides)
1 tag
“Living on someone else’s platform requires that you understand this stuff really...”
– Charles Hudson, Three Reminders about Platform Businesses (Apple, Twitter, and Facebook)
3 tags
“Sometimes they actually enhance the device. Mostly, though, they’re like a third...”
– Andy Ihnatko’s on hardware features, iPad and Multitasking
3 tags
“When Apple looks at a fingertip, they see a warm, living thing that can feel....”
– Andy Ihnatko, iPad is pure innovation - one of best computers ever
March 2010
5 posts
2 tags
“Finally, the industry is fun again. … Unfortunately, some CIOs would...”
– Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, on TechCrunch: Hello, iPad. Hello, Cloud 2.
3 tags
“People like to consume. They also like to produce. And they like to share....”
– Clay Shirky telling about the cognitive surplus and why television helped masking it
3 tags
“HTML5 apps, which are web-based and far more interoperable already than any...”
– QuirksBlog, on the economy of mobile app development, The payment argument is nonsense
3 tags
“if you are running a media site, if you’re having trouble making money,...”
– Techdirt, arguing Don’t Blame Your Community, in response to Ken Fisher’s whining on Ars, Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love
3 tags
“I can’t speak to the hardware and “architecture” issues, but I despise the idea...”
– John Gruber, Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement
February 2010
6 posts
“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get, but if you...”
– Conan O’Brien, in his final Tonight Show.
2 tags
“User interfaces are one of the principal sources from which a person learns...”
– northtemple, UIs that lie & the users who believe them
2 tags
“The human could be translated out of its body and into machines, free of the...”
– Paul Ford, Just Like Heaven, in his elaborate answer to the question Is there an afterlife?
2 tags
“For Apple, it’s not about killing off tinkerers, but ensuring that not everybody...”
– Dan Moren, explaining why The iPad isn’t a third device, but a third revolution
3 tags
“What the user gets instead, is increased battery life, sustained performance,...”
– Smoking Apples on (the supposed lack of) multi-tasking on the iPad
January 2010
10 posts
3 tags
“I find it hard to believe that the loss of background processing isn’t a...”
– Fraser Speirs, explaining why reactions to the iPad are Future Shock
2 tags
“Does anybody seriously believe that Android, Nokia, Samsung, Palm, BlackBerry...”
– Stephen Fry, iPad about
3 tags
3 tags
“The end result of all this is what finally shipped: the lowest common...”
– Ex-Microsoft Developer Moishe Lettvin, The Windows Shutdown crapfest
4 tags
“The Internet is the last Wild West this world has. Help us fill it with dick...”
– Daniel O’Brien, Cracked.com
2 tags
“Linking is not a privilege that the recipient of the link should control – any...”
– Jeff Jarvis in The Guardian, explains why News Corp is foolish to block linking
2 tags
“As our jobs (and lives) get more cerebral and less physical, our...”
– Seth Godin, Multiple minds
2 tags
“if you’re feeling that distracted, the last thing you need is a web site about...”
– more minimal: Please leave
2 tags
“People will strive to experience an equal or increasing level of complexity in...”
– Tog, The Complexity Paradox
2 tags
“if you’ve never done any testing, you can typically at least double your...”
– Jakob Nielsen: Anybody Can Do Usability
December 2009
4 posts
3 tags
“I think 2010 will be the year that enterprises of all sizes start their...”
– Don Dodge, Google’s official evangelist, as quoted by The Register
3 tags
“The internet is mostly cat pictures these days. I remember the good old days...”
– QDB: Quote #300893
3 tags
“We do nothing wrong when we make love or go to the bathroom. We are not...”
– Security expert Bruce Schneier’s reaction to Eric Schmidt’s controversial statements on privacy.
2 tags
“Rational arguments don’t usually work on religious people. Otherwise,...”
– Doris Egan, House M.D., The Right Stuff, 2007
November 2009
2 posts
2 tags
“problem on the internet: the quantity of information available continues to rise...”
– tumbledry.org, When Information Overwhelms Facts
2 tags
“This is the double life many people lead: yesterday’s technology for work,...”
– The Wall Street Journal: Why You Can’t Use Personal Technology at the Office
October 2009
5 posts
2 tags
“Visual design is more than styling. It is function. And not only because it...”
– Stephen Anderson, Eye Candy IS A Critical Business Requirement
2 tags
“When technology delivers basic needs, user experience dominates.”
– Donald A. Norman, The Invisible Computer (1988)
2 tags
“We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage, unless this Congress at least...”
– Chief movie lobbyist Jack Valenti on the VCR in 1982, quoted on Ars Technica
2 tags
“Early on, people believed that their money was safer under their mattress than...”
– Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of Google, on cloud computing, Times Online
1 tag
“Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to...”
– Caterina.net, Working hard is overrated
September 2009
3 posts
3 tags
“Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.”
– Joel Spolsky, The Duct Tape Programmer
2 tags
“We were wrong about the first-time shoppers. They did mind registering. They...”
– Jared M. Spool, The $300 Million Button
1 tag
“There is something fundamentally unresolved about our music. And that’s a good...”
– Vernon Reid on Living Colour, BostonHerald.com
July 2009
4 posts
2 tags
“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
– John Gilmore
1 tag
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson (see also the 9 other Photography Quotes)
3 tags
“The question these companies should be asking is, “How do we keep reporting and...”
– John Gruber (Daring Fireball), Charging for Access to News Sites
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“In industry after industry, I think we’ve got an opportunity to shift our...”
– Snarkmarket: Free Book Idea: Too Big to Succeed