John Warnock Quotes

At Dell, we believe the customer is in control, and our job is to take all the technology that's out there and apply it in a useful way to meet the customer's needs.

In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Knowing how people will use something is essential.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.

A lot of people in the technology space love the idea of a solving a problem.

If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine.

I have always been interested in exploring how we can leverage our knowledge about everyday objects, and how we use them, in order to interact with our digital world.

Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.

Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.

It is incredibly powerful if you solve the problem you actually have yourself. It's really tough to develop a good product when you don't have very close proximity to the people who actually use your product. The closest proximity you can have to those people is to be that person.

I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.

The most successful apps have taken a societal problem and built an accessible and democratic solution.

We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don't want you to bend to computers.

I want to invest in a functional product that people are using.

Products are sold because they solve a problem or fill a need. Understanding problems and needs involves understanding customers and what makes them tick.

I'm an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.

I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool.

A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few. Creativity is crucial to your business.

At the core, Philips is an innovation company. And for innovation to work, you need to look for the unmet needs.