Customers Quote by Steve Blank

“Continually adding features to software turns out to be equally unsustainable.”

— Giles Colborne

Making a product better often requires removing features.

— Marco Arment

“software alone is a commodity. There is nothing stopping anyone from copying the feature set, making it better, cheaper, and faster.”

— Alex Moazed

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.

— Linus Torvalds

Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work…

— David Karp

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

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

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

— Niklaus Wirth

“The Standish Group’s 2002 “Chaos” study of software project success and failure rates states that in a typical software system, 45% of features are…

— Chris Sims

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

— Jan Koum

Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify…

— Boris Beizer

“In such a climate, the more appropriate way to think of software is as an organizational asset: nothing more and nothing less. Looking at…

— Stephen O’Grady