Web Quotes

"A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product."

"Gundotra’s philosophy of product design is to envision the demo he will eventually present at the launch event and work backwards from there."

"Whereas we adults may have to be taught to be irreverent, intellectual irreverence comes naturally to kids, out of sheer ignorance. And although ignorance is generally a vice, for creativity it can be a virtue"

"Meanwhile it’s the stuff that doesn’t get the hype that has a chance to go through the iterations needed to achieve market acceptance, off on the side, without millions of users showing up Day One."

"The McDonald’s model scales. The Chinese restaurant model spreads."

"this is the risk inherent in treating your users as consumers as opposed to creators – is that you could actually breed the creaters out of userbase and by doing so, kill it."

"Did we at any point say it was a nightmare developing on Android? Errr nope, no we didn’t. It wasn’t."

"Leadership is the art of getting people to want to do what you know must be done - Eisenhower"

"Skate where the puck’s going, not where it’s been"

"Ideas are works of bricolage. They are, almost inevitably, networks of other ideas. We take the ideas we’ve inherited or stumbled across, and we jigger them together into some new shape"