Kathy Sierra Quotes

#1. On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it.

Harold Feinstein

#2. It's not what you know, it's when you know it.

Kathy Sierra

#3. Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard to do.

Kathy Sierra

#4. The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.

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#5. We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial
it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural.

Kathy Sierra

#6. It does not matter how awesome your product is or your presentation or your post. Your awesome thing matters ONLY to the extent that it serves the user's ability to be a little more awesome.

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#7. Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.

Gautama Buddha

#8. For, indeed, nothing is more fugitive than the heart, which deserts us as often as it slips away through bad thoughts.

Gregory The Great

#9. Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.

Kathy Sierra

#10. Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them!

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#11. In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.

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#12. Amazing, powerful, inspirational - those adjectives might make me sound like a fawning fan, but REWORK is that useful. Be prepared for a new feeling of clarity and motivation.

Kathy Sierra

#13. As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

Tim DeKay

#14. My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.

Patsy Kensit

#15. I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

Richard Russo

#16. A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness.

Lisa Kogan

#17. You go out into the night makin' trouble, fearless. With everything else that means something in your life, you're shit scared. You're gonna have to find a way to get the f**k over it.

Kristen Ashley

#18. Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

Kathy Sierra

#19. I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.

Yaya Han

#20. Just make people better at something they want to be better at.

Kathy Sierra

#21. Twitter, for all its good, is a hate amplifier.

Kathy Sierra

#22. The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

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#23. Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft.

Elliott Colla

#24. I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

James Caan

#25. You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.

John McAleer