“Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.”

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”

“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.”

“[Meetings are] a huge waste of time, and they’re costly. It’s not one hour; it’s 10, because you pulled 10 people away from their real work. Plus, they chop your day into small bits, so you have only 20 minutes of free time here or 45 minutes there.

Creative people need unstructured time to get in the zone. You can’t do that in 20 minutes.”

“The best work that we’ve ever done is work that was done in a very short period of time with the deadline hanging over our head.”

“Why do we feel like we need to keep revisiting the archetype over and over and over again? Digital cameras for example, in which their format, proportion, the fact that they’re horizontal rectangles, are modeled off the original silver film camera. So, in turn it’s the film that defines the shape of the camera.

All of a sudden our digital cameras have no film. So why on earth do we have the same shape we have?”

“Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, do just that, and then polish the hell out of the experience.”