Seen on a website:
We hate spam too and won’t send emails you don’t request.
Everyone hates spam, but it still gets sent, so why should I believe that you won’t send any?
Category Archives: Quotes
That was as big a hug as I think you’ll ever see Apple give to AT&T
In the beginning was the word. And the word wrapped.
After writing an angry e-mail, read it carefully. Then delete it.
…the track order of certain [mix]tapes is so burned into the memory that, even out of context, it’s impossible to hear the end of one favorite song without immediately recalling what the next one should be.
Obsolete, p.123
True.
…we noticed that users are always on specific missions when they come to sites. With only one exception, users never visit a site “just to see what it has.” (The one exception? Web designers.)
That’s me. So true. Read more
There’s not a lot of management at Apple—only about six layers between any employee and Jobs. So if Apple begins with Steve Jobs’s experience of technology, it ends with its employees’ experience of Steve Jobs. “You might go awhile without seeing him,” says a former software engineer. “But you are constantly aware of his presence. You are constantly aware that what you’re doing will either please or displease him. I mean, he might not know who you are. But there’s no question that he knows what you do. And what you’re doing. And whether he likes it or not.“
Emotional Design… presents scientific evidence that attractive thing work better. Since being happy broadens our thought processes and facilitates creative thinking, attractive products that make us happy can improve our ability to use them. In effect, they work better because we work better.
—Ambient Findability (p. 56)
This made me laugh (at Signal vs. Noise)
| Jamis B. | weird terminology here |
| Jamis B. | “Dental PPO plans are available on a stand-alone basis for groups with 10+ lives” |
| Jamis B. | lives? |
| Jason F. | lol |
| Jamis B. | so one cat plus 1 programmer ought to cover it |