“There are three kinds of companies: companies that try to lead customers where they don’t want to go (these find the idea of being customer-led an insight); companies that listen to customers and then respond to their articulated needs (needs… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“Designs belong to individual designers; Architecture belongs to communities of practice. We” — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“If “ship early, ship often” is interpreted as the willingness to expose not-quite-feature-complete but well-tested products to the healthy pressures of real users, everybody… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“The real agent of change is not computers per se but rather the computation that we are installing into even the most mundane constituents… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“The designer who aspires to build on the scale of an ecology must abandon the conceit of absolute control of her medium and instead… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“Open source is characteristically about herd behavior and local hill climbing. There is such a thing as the wisdom of crowds, but it is… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“Mycorrhizal networks have been shown to move water to areas of drought, confer resistance against toxic surroundings or disease, and even support interplant communication.… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“We’ve spent a half-century believing that people should become computer literate. That’s precisely backward. Computing should become human literate.” — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“Abstraction can be a powerful tool, but it can also lead to heads buried in the sand. In” — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“Today’s so-called cloud isn’t really a cloud at all. It’s a bunch of corporate dirigibles painted to look like clouds. You can tell they’re… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex—not that which never… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“We have already said that many devices will have no need to be on the Internet. But, perhaps certain devices won’t be allowed to… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“There are three kinds of companies: companies that try to lead customers where they don’t want to go (these find the idea of being… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“Getting past the client-server model will be a long, slow slog. Technological inertia and backward-looking economic interests will conspire to ensure this. But slowly… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
