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Product Life Cycle adoption curve: 4 Basic Stage (via Derek Silvers )

The Bikini Concept: by giving away 90% of the concept, and keeping 10%, the attraction factor is just as strong, if not twice as strong. by Sean

There’s no speed limit! — Kimo’s high expectations set a new pace for me. He taught me “the standard pace is for chumps”. Derek Sivers

It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better. Johnathan Ive (via Pedro Custodio )

Just because it is not your fault does not mean it is not your problem. ?

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… if you can’t explain your mission in the form, “We help $TYPE_OF_PERSON be awesome at $THING,” you are not going to have passionate users. Kathy Sierra (via Joel on Software )

Rails is magical and sexy, it’s the Ferrari of web frameworks, it’s the foul mouthed, sullen browed, twenty-something on the sport bike. Django is more of a refined tool that is only really appreciated with experience. Django is the Bentley, the Aston Martin, the Rolls Royce of web frameworks. I’m pushing 34 now, (…) I’m not looking for a Ferrari, I’m looking for the Aston Martin. Christopher Roach, in I Hate Magic: Why Django Rocks!...

If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said ‘a faster horse.’ Henry Ford