Archive for April, 2006
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join and flow with it.”
The road to wisdom? — Well, it’s plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.
Problems worthy
of attack
prove their worth
by hitting back.
“What made oil paint so exciting, when it first became popular in the fifteenth century, was that you could make the finished work from the prototype. You could make a preliminary drawing if you wanted to, but you weren’t held to it; you could work out all the details, and even make major changes as you finished the painting. You can do this with software too. A prototype doesn’t have to be just a model; you can refine it into the finished product. […] It’s good for morale.”
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.”
“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”