“I think that when the dust settles in four or five years, the online backup market is going to look a lot like the anti-virus market. Almost every PC is going to ship with online backup built-in”
“Or come up with social networking solutions that simultaneously encourage collaboration, decrease real estate costs, and increase energy efficiency?”
“La Chiesa cattolica francese ha deciso di lanciare un fondo, Ethica, per gestire i suoi investimenti. E sceglierà le azioni da prendere in base a criteri etici. Lo riportava l’altro giorno Le Monde. Da notare che solo il 38% delle aziende quotate in Europa si qualificano per questo fondo. Le altre non sono abbastanza etiche.”
“Building great software, Cooper argues, requires embracing a new approach to design, one that distinguishes between three challenges: conceptual design, interaction design, and interface design. Conceptual design shapes what a product does. Interaction design determines how it behaves by examining what users are trying to do with it. Interface design affects how it looks and feels.”
“The fail-safe way to distinguish between quantitative and qualitative data is to focus on the status of a single observation or datum, rather than on an entire set of observations or data.”
“Add up all the time you’ve wasted trying to get a new gadget to achieve the simple goal for which you bought it and you may find that computers have helped you waste literally weeks of your life.”
“She sees the very limited access of the machine to the world and therefore the assymmetric ability of human and machine to make sense of the interaction as the important problem in human-computer interaction.”
“The roster of people who will participate in the creation of a standard way to describe them will become increasingly important as machine learning becomes more important in our every day lives.”
“If blogging was the key step in the democratization of content production, user scripts represent the democratization of user interface design.”
“As tempting as it was to entertain the fantasy of learning Objective-C and producing a truly Internet-aware application that’s more than JavaScript and the DOM jammed together over HTTP, my sense of pragmatism took over four hours later. I could spend a few weeks writing a program that only a few people could use, on a locked down device running a locked down service — or I could continue to work on software free for anyone to use, not tied to a specific hardware platform or service.”