“It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. As Henry Ford said many years earlier: "If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse." Inventions in general express Shannon entropy. They come from the supply side.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantYearsSaidHardShowsSidesFocusGroupsDesignProductsBuiltEconomicsHorseCustomersInventionFasterWant UEntropyFocus GroupsShannon Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
“So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.” ShouldYearsWellsSaidFiveBuiltShould HaveStealingFive YearsItalianStolen Author:Barry McGuire
“The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.” SaidBuildingMembersBuiltEastAll TimeTriumphArchitectAssociationGallery Author:J. Carter Brown
“So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'” ThinkingWantLifeNeedsGivingSaidPayTechnologyHavensCollegeBuiltSillyHeyDumbThey SaidPredictionsSalaryNeed YouFundingAmazing ThingsCrazy IdeasDon't Need YouInventing ThingsAtari Author:Steve Jobs
“I've built many doorways and set out traps so that no one will be able to reach this place. That's what the angel said. This is a castle of darkness for the angel and I alone. Only within this yielding gloom can I lament the misfortune that has rained down all around me, only here am I permitted to scorn and pity the ugliness, the filthiness of how I smile and pretend at being pure in the light of day.” SaidLightAbleDarknessPureAngelBuiltPityMisfortunesTrapsUglinessCastlesScornGloomDoorwaysLamentI Smile Author:Mizuki Nomura
“Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!” SaidWantedBuildingBuiltGardenAfternoonFountainRehearsing Author:Maurice Gibb
“And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.” IfsSaidHellHeardStreetsBuiltRome Book:Church and ministry Source: Church and ministry