Sundar Pichai Quotes

You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.

With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases.

Google likely never cared if Google+ 'won' as a competitor to Facebook (though if it did, that would have been a nice bonus). All that mattered, in the end, was whether Plus became the connective tissue between all of Google's formerly scattered services. And in a few short years, it's fair to say it has.

Google+ will never have a user base to rival Facebook's. It just won't. Not even if you include the 'users' who create accounts so that they can use other Google services.

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.

Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.

You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that people don't necessarily understand at first. In our case, we knew the users we had in mind for this product. So in the early days, we looked at our customers, really just testers at that point, and we paid extra attention to the teams we knew should be using Slack successfully.

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.

One of the hard parts about building a service that you use yourself is that it's easy to forget what it was like the very first time someone signs up. Every once in a while, I'll create a brand new account and give it a try and see how hard it is to find things that I really love, see if I'm using it or thinking about it differently.

As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

I think there are a lot more people that don't use Pinterest in the world than do use it, so for most people, that first experience is really, really important. I think feeling really close and in touch with that first user experience is pretty basic to making it better every day.

I can't imagine that companies are uninteresting if they don't have a billion users. But I do believe, to have mass scale, you have to be in the many-hundreds-of-millions-of-users range, and there are not that many companies that get there.

It doesn't matter how good your product solution is if users don't enjoy or understand how to use it.

There's always a momentum in how users do stuff. Making small changes can have huge knock-on effects for whole companies.

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

Our strategy with DSiWare is the same as with WiiWare in that we want to provide new experiences every week.

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

I have to match wits with the ads. Like, there's pop-ups that, like, move around and you have to chase them like it was a video game or something. And then there's ads where, like, you know, the X to, like, close the ad screen is so kind of small that you can't find it and you have to actually go looking for it. And so I spend all my energy - instead of, like, absorbing what the advertiser wants to communicate to me, I spend my energy trying to figure out how to defeat the ad.

Start by putting yourself in your users' shoes. Why are they coming to your site? If you look at most Web sites, you'd presume that the answer is "User is extremely bored and wishes to stare at a blank screen for several minutes while a flashing icon loads, then stare at the flashing icon for a few more minutes."

Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.