“My feeling is that everything you do is marketing all the time. Your products are marketing. Your Web sites and your customer service are marketing. All of those things to me are what marketing is all about; it’s not a department.”
“We keep our products simple. I’d rather have people grow out of our products, as long as more people are growing into them.”
“Would you take your next paycheck in page views? or users? or followers? or visitors? or eyeballs (remember that one from the 90s)? Go down to the corner store and plunk down a million impressions for a gum ball. They’ll probably call the cops.”
“Bells and whistles are software jewelry. Most software looks like Mr. T.”
I’m standing next to a Croatian-born American genius in a half-empty office in Watertown, Massachusetts, and I’m about to be fried to a crisp. Or I’m about to witness the greatest advance in electrical science in a hundred years. Maybe both.
“Don’t you sometimes long to be CEO of a company like Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia or Microsoft? So that you can say to your coders, your designers, your development teams and your software architects: “Not Fucking Good Enough. I haven’t said ‘Wow’ yet. I haven’t gasped with pleasure, amusement or admiration once. Start again. Not Fucking Good Enough.”
Insane News Man (via Andrewzieg & maniacalrage)
As Jason Fried said at SEED, timing really is everything…
