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"It’s a well known fact that people tend to overestimate the impact technology will have in the short..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:08:24 +0200

“It’s a well known fact that people tend to overestimate the impact technology will have in the short term, but underestimate its significance in the longer term.”

- Larry Page, announcing Google closing the acquisition of Motorola

"those who don’t design for readers might soon not be designing for anyone"

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:40:17 +0200

“those who don’t design for readers might soon not be designing for anyone”

- Jeffrey Zeldman, in his Web Design Manifesto 2012

"Internet use would only be a worry if it was getting in the way of us practicing some other life..."

Fri, 04 May 2012 18:00:00 +0200

“Internet use would only be a worry if it was getting in the way of us practicing some other life skill.”

- Tom Stafford, in his BBC Future column discussing if the internet rewires our brain

"There is a happy middle ground where developers can apologize and software can provide the user..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:59:01 +0100

“There is a happy middle ground where developers can apologize and software can provide the user polite guidance about what to do next.”

- Cooper Journal, ranting on too cute error messages

"Google might not be evil, but there are plenty of evil people who stand to benefit from the blurring..."

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:16:47 +0100

“Google might not be evil, but there are plenty of evil people who stand to benefit from the blurring of public and private life”

- Rob Beschizza, explaining on BoingBoing Why we shouldn’t let Google (or anyone else) claim their private services are public spaces

"if I had to choose between copyright and the wild west, semi-lawless, innovation-fest that is the..."

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:51:25 +0100

“if I had to choose between copyright and the wild west, semi-lawless, innovation-fest that is the internet? I’ll take the internet every time”

- Jonathan Coulton, on copyright, piracy, and the MegaUpload shutdown

"You simply cannot reconcile a mandate to love one’s neighbour, whilst then adding a list of openly..."

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:28:37 +0100

“You simply cannot reconcile a mandate to love one’s neighbour, whilst then adding a list of openly bigoted exceptions.”

- Matt Gemmell, on the Pope, Morality and Persecution

"Apple’s way of getting you to buy a new phone is to make you really happy with your current one,..."

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:56:38 +0100

“Apple’s way of getting you to buy a new phone is to make you really happy with your current one, whereas apparently Android phone makers think they can get you to buy a new phone by making you really unhappy with your current one”

- The Understatement, visualizing Android Orphans

"People don’t buy products – they buy the benefit."

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:30:28 +0100

“People don’t buy products – they buy the benefit.”

- One of ZURBlog’s 3 Reasons to Focus On People, Not Products

"Aim to become as big of a traffic referrer as you possibly can — not only is that good policy, but..."

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:39:02 +0100

“Aim to become as big of a traffic referrer as you possibly can — not only is that good policy, but it’s a great business asset.”

- Dan Frommer, on better blogging which would be good advise for all (online) publishers

"If you can build it in html, css and javascript, then you should. If you can’t, then you shouldn’t."

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:42:59 +0100

“If you can build it in html, css and javascript, then you should. If you can’t, then you shouldn’t.”

- Jonathan Stark on whether to build a phone or tablet app using html, css and javascript, or code it in Objective C / Java. (via wtf-mobile-web)

"The problem isn’t that magazines and newspapers are greedy or badly run, but that the demand for..."

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:02:36 +0100

“The problem isn’t that magazines and newspapers are greedy or badly run, but that the demand for their content and the economics that fund it have shifted so far away from what they do.”

- Marco Arment, visionairy software developer, concluding his blogpost The New-World Economy of a Modern Magazine

"Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to..."

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:03:28 +0100

“Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance.”

- Stephen Fry, on Steve Jobs

"It’s not about Personal Computer .. it’s about Interpersonal Computing"

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:15:09 +0200

“It’s not about Personal Computer .. it’s about *Interpersonal* Computing”

- Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the WWW, quoting Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer

"He transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human..."

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:09:33 +0200

“He transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world.”

- President Barack Obama, on the Passing of Steve Jobs

"The fact that it’s easy to write web pages doesn’t mean that it’s easy to produce..."

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:11:19 +0200

“The fact that it’s easy to write web pages doesn’t mean that it’s easy to produce a good mobile app using HTML”

- Tom Hume, on the cost of cross-platform web apps, taking the Financial Times’ web app as an example.

"Inbox Zero does not mean how much e-mail’s in your inbox. It’s how much of your brain is in your..."

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:58:07 +0200

“Inbox Zero does not mean how much e-mail’s in your inbox. It’s how much of your brain is in your inbox when you don’t want it to be”

- Merlin Mann, inventor of Inbox Zero, quoted in the Confessions of an inbox obsessive - The Globe and Mail

"De URL is het document."

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:16:40 +0200

“De URL is het document.”

- Arjen Kamphuis in zijn column over documentformaten, Its a trap! (column)

"the day Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple isn’t like the day a typical CEO resigns"

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:04:16 +0200

“the day Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple isn’t like the day a typical CEO resigns”

- Walt Mossberg, on why Jobs’s Departure Is the End of an Extraordinary Era

"To Apple, being in the App Store is a privilege — not the whole ballgame."

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:23:21 +0200

“To Apple, being in the App Store is a privilege — not the whole ballgame.”

- John Gruber of Daring Fireball, on the App Store vs. Mobile Web Apps