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“all technical professions have an incentive to make themselves look more complicated than they really are so that they can justify the high fees…

— Ha-Joon Chang

“No matter how great a technical expert you are, you will never be able to create something useful until you know what people want.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

Often, very talented technical people find it extraordinarily difficult to take the viewpoint of customers, who are often ignorant about the technology and who…

— Barbara Bund

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery.…

— Gary Wolf

“Companies are run by computers. Profit margins are sliced thin. And no manager dare raise his eyes from his accounts long enough to learn…

— Len Deighton

“challenging market, when so many of our customers are struggling to control costs, our engineers have been reconfiguring our portfolio into industry-leading suites of…

— Jeff Thull

If you look at our customers, our customers tend to be really high-end people who make big, sophisticated systems.

— James Gosling

“The good news is there’s actually no magic to tech. As opaque as it might seem from the outside, it’s just a skill set—one…

— Sara Wachter-Boettcher

“As so often happens in computer science, we’re willing to sacrifice efficiency for generality.”

— Pedro Domingos

Technology is a continuum. It's constantly getting lower-cost and easier to use, and you see that, and that's true with our company.

— Marc Benioff

“We have become so obsessed with getting rid of people who are burdened with the characterization overhead that we have ended up with organizations…

— Tom DeMarco

“I’m not a tech guy. I’m looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people’s eyes.” – Jack Ma”

— Think Maverick