“Don’t just invent but reinvent. Create new products on regular cycles knowing that customers will happily upgrade. The cost will include cannibalizing sales from, or simply invalidating, your old products, but by then you’ve trained your customers they are not just witnessing but participating in the evolution of consumer technology.”
—Steve Jobs at Apple vs. Edwin Land at Polaroid ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto
December 2011
“Land invented a totally different kind of annual meeting. Like many of his best inventions, it served several purposes; was complex, elegant, tastefully packaged; required enormous preparation; and dealt with several audiences on different levels simultaneously.”
—Steve Jobs at Apple vs. Edwin Land at Polaroid ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto
November 2011
“Land was virtually the only person in the company who knew in detail all the difficulties that had to be surmounted. The rest of us could only guess. “Do not undertake a program unless the goal is manifestly important and its achievement is nearly impossible,” Land has said 30 years earlier.”
—Steve Jobs at Apple vs. Edwin Land at Polaroid ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto
“Here’s what I say: Come on over. Come join the side that makes books and music and movies. There are great rewards here, too, but not enough toolmakers. We need you.”
—Bless the toolmakers « Snarkmarket
“I want, frankly, to impose myself.”
—Bless the toolmakers « Snarkmarket
“Today, if you’re a person with the toolmaking talent, you actually have a lot of options, of which making a web platform or a framework are just a couple. If you possess the skills to make powerful tools, you’ve got one up on Archimedes. “Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the earth,” he said. You, the toolmaker, can make your own place.”
—Bless the toolmakers « Snarkmarket
“Better to be in the arena getting stomped by the bulls, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.”
—Steven Pressfield Quotes
“You start to think less about Twine as an object and more about the data it generates”
—‘Twine’ Seeks To Tie Up The Smart Environment | Epicenter | Wired.com
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“Your users have a certain mental budget they will invest in your rating system. The more work you make each decision, the fewer decisions you will get.”
—John Ciancutti’s answer to Is there a better alternative to the 5-star rating system? - Quora
