Bill Buxton Quotes

#1. Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer.

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#2. My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

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#3. Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest when everyone in the studio working on the project has spent time with them.

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#4. The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.

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#5. The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

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#6. The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today

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#7. If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imaginationto fit in.

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#8. If I can see it, it's a failure

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#9. If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!

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#10. Always be a beginner at something.

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#11. Always be a beginner at something, and always be in love with what you are beginning.

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#12. When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

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#13. The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

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