The goal with products is to give people a great story to tell, so they can tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on. Being new is a great advantage on this front. Would you go tell a friend about Pepsi? No, because they’ve been around too long. That’s the advantage of being David in the David and Goliath story.
Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.
David Axmark resigned stating “I HATE all the rules that I need to follow, and I also HATE breaking them. It would be far better for me to “retire” from employment and work with MySQL and Sun on a less formal basis.” If I may paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to lose one co-founder may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. – Albert Einstein
We came up with a name [for a company], `Telemon,’ ” says Meyer. “It was wonderful—until we went to Thailand, where it means `intercourse with your mother.’
When dealing with git, it’s best to work in small bits. Rule of thumb: if you can’t summarise it in a sentence, you’ve gone too long without committing.
Let’s face it, if hosting The Tonight Show for 30 years didn’t turn Johnny Carson into an extravert, I doubt tips like “say hi to more people” will do the trick.
What’s the point of having airport security if $100 a year gets you past it?
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
If there’s something worse than not being part of the conversation it’s pretending to be part of the conversation.
Page X of Y. Ever wonder why so many financial and legal documents
use a page numbering scheme that tells you how many pages
there are in the document? For some documents, the simple knowledge
that *there is an end* is required to maintain one’s sanity.
hen there’s our building. Steve Jobs basically designed this building. In the center, he created this big atrium area, which seems initially like a waste of space. The reason he did it was that everybody goes off and works in their individual areas. People who work on software code are here, people who animate are there, and people who do designs are over there. Steve put the mailboxes, the meetings rooms, the cafeteria, and, most insidiously and brilliantly, the bathrooms in the center—which initially drove us crazy—so that you run into everybody during the course of a day. [Jobs] realized that when people run into each other, when they make eye contact, things happen. So he made it impossible for you not to run into the rest of the company.
My challenge this week is to draw a whiteboard diagram that looks vaguely like a penis in every meeting I’m in, and pretend to not notice.
if they can put up with windows, they can put up with badly rendered CSS.
I met my wife on your captcha!!!” — Steve, from New York
