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“individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own: they can benefit from innovations developed”

— Eric von Hippel

Old companies that had nothing to do with software in the past all have software development activities to unlock the invention that's occurring inside…

— Peter Levine

“between users and manufacturers is that users tend to develop innovations that are functionally novel, requiring a great deal of user-need information and use-context…

— Eric von Hippel

“Developers are the most-important, most-valuable constituency in business today, regardless of industry. Technologists newly empowered with tools, hyper-connected via specialized collaboration and communication networks,…

— Stephen O’Grady

I think all of the great developers start not with the intent to make money, but with the intent to make something fun that's…

— David Baszucki

Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially…

— Bill Gates

“Chapter 4 concludes by pointing out that an additional incentive can drive individual user-innovators to innovate rather than buy: they may value the process…

— Eric von Hippel

“It is becoming progressively easier for many users to get precisely what they want by designing it for themselves.”

— Eric von Hippel

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

— Steve Jobs

Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to address.

— Hilary Mason

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

— Niklaus Wirth

Innovation and its allure can be dangerous. It can draw you away from the user, from the intended outcome, and may be the ultimate…

— Mark Brand