Stefan Imhoff

“market-driven pressures plus an engineering-driven company yield ever-increasing features, complexity, and confusion. But even companies that do intend to search for human needs are thwarted by the severe challenges of the product development process, in particular, the challenges of insufficient time and insufficient money.”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

“The thing that is destroying the world. The thing you were talking about. Actual selflessness.'
'The ideal which they say does not exist?'
'They're wrong. It does exist-though not in the way they imagine. It's what I couldn't understand about people for a long time. They have no self. They live within others. They live second-hand. Look at Peter Keating.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“The language we use can subtly influence our thinking. […]

On the face of it, the term “web platform” seems harmless. Describing the web as a platform puts it on par with other software environments. Flash was a platform. Android is a platform. iOS is a platform. But the web is not a platform. The whole point of the web is that it is cross‐platform.”
― Jeremy Keith, Resilient Web Design

“If wisdom were offered me on the one condition that I should keep it shut away and not divulge it to anyone, I should reject it. There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.”
― Seneca