Minimalism
If you’re feeling that distracted
if you’re feeling that distracted, the last thing you need is a web site about minimalism more minimal: Please leave
Usability
People will strive to experience
People will strive to experience an equal or increasing level of complexity in their lives no matter what is done to reduce it. Tog, The Complexity Paradox
Usability
If you've never done any testing
if you’ve never done any testing, you can typically at least double your conversion rate or other key business metrics. Jakob Nielsen: Anybody Can Do Usability
I think 2010 will be the year
I think 2010 will be the year that enterprises of all sizes start their transition to Gmail and Google Apps, and take their first steps towards the vision of the future. The move towards Cloud Computing is obvious. Don Dodge, Google’s official evangelist, as quoted by The Register
Fun
The internet is mostly cat pictures these days
The internet is mostly cat pictures these days. I remember the good old days when the internet was conspiracy theorists, porn, and DOOM WAD files. QDB: Quote #300893
Religion
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people
Rational arguments don’t usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be religious people. Doris Egan, House M.D., The Right Stuff, 2007
Internet
The quantity of information
problem on the internet: the quantity of information available continues to rise while the quantity of factual data grounded in scientific methods fails to keep pace tumbledry.org, When Information Overwhelms Facts
Work
Yesterday’s technology
This is the double life many people lead: yesterday’s technology for work, today’s technology for everything else. The Wall Street Journal: Why You Can’t Use Personal Technology at the Office
When technology delivers basic needs, user experience dominates
When technology delivers basic needs, user experience dominates. Donald A. Norman, The Invisible Computer (1988)
We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage
We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage, unless this Congress at least protects one industry that is able to retrieve a surplus balance of trade and whose total future depends on its protection from the savagery and the ravages of this machine. Chief movie lobbyist Jack Valenti on
Cloud computing
Early on, people believed that their money was safer
Early on, people believed that their money was safer under their mattress than in a bank Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of Google, on cloud computing, Times Online (Wayback Machine)
Professional
Describe solutions rather than ask for tasks
Far better to reach a level of confidence and skill that you can describe solutions rather than ask for tasks. Seth Godin: “What do you need me to do?”