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Florian Kugler: “[People] might say otherwise when asked about, but their actions speak pretty clearly: A cup of coffee is worth more than almost every app on the store. That's a hard pill to swallow, but we should let it sink in. We pour all our creativity, time, and passion into creating basically worthless products.” → Read More

I'm not against patents and inventors' rights. But there is a big difference between protecting your properties from real thieves and suing everyone without actually creating anything. If the only solution to this problem is to abolish the patents system, so be it. → Read More

Oliver Reichenstein: “This post is not about the technical quality of the logo. I am not writing about brand design, but about brand management. This is about a simple rule: Brand design follows brand management, not the other way around.” → Read More

Charles Miller: “An argument could be made that Microsoft was making the best PC software in its class. Not because it had suddenly found the ability to develop cool, innovative products, but because everyone else was dead.” → Read More

Lukas Mathis: “If you want to design a successful product, don’t design a product that’s only good for people like you, because most people aren’t like you.” → Read More

Kornel: “Animated GIF, despite having awful compression and terrible quality, is still more useful on the web than any other video format.” → Read More

Joshua Porter: “So the next time you hear “People hate change” think to yourself “People don’t hate change. They hate the work of change”.” → Read More

Trent Reznor: “I'm not saying offering things for free or pay-what-you-can is wrong. I'm saying my personal feeling is that my album's not a dime. It's not a buck. I made it as well as I could, and it costs 10 bucks, or go fuck yourself.” → Read More

Jonathan Blow: “Advertising is effective only because so many people think “Ads don't influence me” and “Ads give me what I want for free”.” → Read More