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Steve Ballmer, USA TODAY CEO Forum, April 29, 2007
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“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any
significant market share.No chance.”
Don Norman
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“The inventors will invent,for that is what inventors do.
The technology will come first,
the products second,and then
the needs will slowly appear.”
Jef Raskin
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“A computer shall not waste your time
or require you to domore work than isstrictly necessary.”
Alan Cooper
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“Just how do I design if not with prototyping?
An excellent question.The short answer is
on paper.”
Peter Drucker
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“The most important thingin communication
is to hearwhat isn't being said.”
Sergey Brin
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“We arecurrently
not planningon conquering the world.”
Larry Page, Businessweek, March 13, 2001
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“Basically, our goal is to organize the world's
informationand to make it universally
accessible and useful.”
Groucho Marx as Dr. Hackenbush
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“If I hold you any closer,I'll be in back of you.”
Seth Godin A saying that has been around since the ice age
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“Nine women can't have a baby in one month,
no matter how closely they coordinate their work.”
Thomas Edison
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“Opportunity is missed by most because it comes
dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Mark D. Lutchen, Former Global CIO of PWC
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“IT is not comparable to a fully sequential engineering
system in which deliverables result from planning,
designing, building, testing, reworking, retesting, and
finalizing.”
Peter Drucker
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“Do not believe that it is very much of an advance
to do the unnecessarythree times as fast.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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“One has to do something new
in order to see something new.”
Clay Shirky
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“Institutions will try to preserve the problemto which they are the
solution.”
Paul Klee
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“A line is a dotthat went for a walk.”
Jyri Engeström
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“The term ‘social networking’ makes little sense if we leave out the objects that mediate the ties between people. [...]
The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made
up of people.”
Steve Jobs
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“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything.
It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”
The Cluetrain Manifesto
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“The long silence — the interruption of the human
conversation — is coming to an end. On the Internet,
markets are getting more connected and more
powerfully vocal every day.”
Kurt Cobain
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“Rather be dead than cool.”
Ben Bernanke
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“These are issues that we are going to have to address,
because they are significant.”
Herbert Simon
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“One finds limitsby pushing them.”
Ivan Turgenev
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“If we wait for the moment when everything,
absolutely everything is ready,we shall never begin.”
George Best
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“I spent 90% of my money on women and drink.The rest I wasted”
Herbert Simon
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“[...] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,
and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among
the overabundance of information sources
that might consume it.”
Woody Allen
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“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
Kevin Kelly
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“Complexity that works is built up out of
modules that work perfectly,layered one over the other.”
Groucho Marx
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“A child of five would understand this.
Send someone to fetch a child of five.”
Blaise Pascal
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“I apologize for writing you a long letter
but I didn’t have time to write you a short one.”
Matt Hunter, Product Development, IDEO
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“Fail earlyto succeed sooner.”
John Geleynse, Software Technology Evangelism, Apple
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“Implement solutions,not features.”
Chinese Proverb
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“Don't open a shopunless
you like to smile.”
David Ogilvy
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“The best ideascome as jokes.
Make your thinkingas funny as possible.”
Groucho Marx
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“Before I speak,I have somethingimportant to say.”
Niels Bohr
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“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
Henry Ford
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“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted,
they’d have saida faster horse.”
Jeffrey Zeldman
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“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of
content is not design,it’s decoration.”
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