Quotes About Seamlessness

It takes a lot of effort to make something look effortless

I envision a world where our smartphone is central to our lives in a non-obtrusive and intelligent way.

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both." –James A. Michener

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor and her leisure; her mind and her body; her education and her recreation. She hardly knows which is which. She simply pursues her vision of excellence through whatever she is doing, and leaves others to determine if she is working or playing. To herself, she always appears to be doing both.

From our earliest days, Booking.com has been deploying technology to help strip the friction out of travel.

The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.

Technology is at its best when it is invisible.

Even the tiniest loose thread in the fabric of your world cannot be tolerated. Either everyting works, or nothing does

As for the present-day Festivals they were endless--blurred--going on forever so that no one knew where one had ended in the next begun.

When we live a seamless life, the language we use, the way we treat those around us, and our attitude will all be the same from one venue to the next.

We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home

I think what is going to happen in the future is more customization, more personalization. We all are different and we ought to be able to customize and have a phone that does exactly what we want it to do - that is so easy to use that we don't even have to think about it. That's what the dream is.

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

With Caavo, you don't have to know the device name, the network name, the service name. Just which show you want to watch, regardless of whether it's live, recorded, downloaded or streaming.

My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage, and straight onto the stage. Two minutes, and I am on the stage. That way, in my head I have gone from my world and then into a social setting with my friends.

All the historical elements should feel organic to the story but not hammered down to serve a purpose.

Well that's a system too but you don't think about it very much because of how flawlessly it works for you.

When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'

Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable.

the proper natural mapping requires no diagrams, no labels, and no instructions.

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.