Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them!
I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U. S. to work for Disney.
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.
The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy.
Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.
There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.
This is true for most new products. The majority of people you're competing with are non-users. They are people who have never used your service before. And what they say is actually the most important. What they say is the thing that blocks you from expanding the size of your market with your features.
I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.
The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.
That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.
However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.
Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature.
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.
This enthusiasm [for empathy] may be misplaced. Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate. We’re often at our best when we’re smart enough not to rely on it.
I do not think that I was brought up in a unique society with unique features about giving.
