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“…you essentially worked until you died.”
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“…technology should be as simple as the box it comes in.”
“…products and services that are easy to experience.”
“Simplicity can be a goal of technology.”
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“To this day, the majority of stockbrokers are compensated on the number of trades their customers make, not on the returns they generate for them or on the quality of the advice they provide.”
“In the end, analysts have minimal structural incentive to be accurate in their predictions; rather their built-in incentive […]

I’ve been reading a lot of about how the real estate market bubble is going to burst. But I am curious about the term “bubble” as it applies to the real estate market. When you think about bubbles, what do you think? Thin, fragile, ready to burst? That’s what I think. Doesn’t irrational exuberance […]

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud is, without any doubt, the best book I’ve ever read on the topic of comic books. It is a masterpiece.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki is also an excellent book. While most people would call it a book on personal finance I would call it a book on […]

Apple vs. Napster

“I had originally considered making a pair of glasses that hung from a bridge piercing for myself about ten years ago. It was just one of those things that seemed so obvious that I was surprised I hadn’t seen it done. I never got around to doing it then, since I wasn’t too keen on […]

“Many websites out there don’t have a single link to another website. According to Webcredible ( http://www.webcredible.co.uk ), a leading UK usability and accessibility consultancy, this is a bad idea. Ask a webmaster why there aren’t any outbound links, and the answer you’ll probably get is simple enough: “If I link to other websites people […]

“So, if you haven’t got the skill to do something important, leave it alone. If something is urgent or complex, find a simple way to do it. If something going wrong will particularly aggravate you, make certain you know how to do it.”
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Business Week — “Honest corporate managers will tell you that to make offshoring work, you need at least a 300% to 400% wage spread between American software writers, engineers, accountants, and call-center employees and their Indian and Chinese counterparts.
Labor costs have to be very, very low overseas — not just lower — to compensate for […]

“There are no quick and exciting and easy wins to be made. We know how to make things usable and it involves a bit of work, easy as that. No rocket science just research, common sense and good old user centered design, in short, stuff we
all know, there are books on it for God’s sake. […]

Gerry McGovern — “Usability sometimes misses the point. If you’re trying to sell me red shoes, I don’t care how user-friendly your website is, I’m just not interested in buying. If you’re charging me 30 percent more than your competitor, all your fancy usability is pretty much irrelevant. If I think this product is cool […]