Building Quote by Eric Ries

Making a product better often requires removing features.

— Marco Arment

The difficult part for us is adding features without making the product more complicated.

— Jan Koum

The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about…

— Eric Ries

We are focused on features, not products. We eliminated future products that would have made the complexity problem worse. We don't want to have…

— Sergey Brin

You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not…

— Anonymous

Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else… By focusing on only a few…

— Paul Buchheit

We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an…

— Steve Blank

Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don't include is as important as what we do…

— Jonathan Ive

Learn not to add too many features right away, and get the core idea built and tested.

— Leah Culver

Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.

— Walter Bender

Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer…

— Jakob Nielsen

We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value…

— Douglas Crockford