Quotes About Adaptation

Startups don't starve; they drown." There are always a zillion new ideas about how to make the product better floating around, but the hard truth is that most of those ideas make a difference only at the margins.

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork other times, like a car accident.

when you were out of options, then you were using the wrong tactics? You had to bend the rules. Shift perspective—anything to find a way out of a hopeless situation.

After all, it was survival of the fittest few.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust on him should try to get on without it for a week.

Religion, like philosophy, is a living thing. If it isn't allowed to change with the times, if it is left to calcify, it will surely become irrelevant

Omul nu este nevoit sa fie partas la greselile epocii in care traieste

this chapter by reviewing the evidence that many users indeed do develop and modify products for their own use

the ongoing shift of product-development activities from manufacturers to users is painful and difficult for many manufacturers.

so. In contrast, the custom manufacturer wants to lower its

When information is sticky, innovators tend to rely largely on information they already have in stock.

had a very high heterogeneity of need, and that many had a high willingness to pay to get precisely what they wanted. Nineteen percent of the users sampled actually innovated to tailor Apache more closely to their needs. Those who did

windsurfing, and a large fraction of the boards sold incorporated the user-developed innovations for the high-performance sport. The user-centered innovation

structure of the social division of labor. Many firms and industries must make fundamental changes to long-held business models in order to adapt. Further, governmental policy and legislation sometimes preferentially supports innovation by manufacturers. Considerations of social welfare suggest that this must change. The workings of the intellectual property system are of special concern. But despite the difficulties, a

each innovator will tend to develop innovations that draw on the sticky information it already has, because that is

Why Many Users Want Custom Products (Chapter 3) Why do so many users develop or modify products for their own use?

You'll have to be grateful for what we can do instead of angry about what we can't.

The land girls from Shillingbury Farm looked the most altered

Wer will, dass die Welt so bleibt, wie sie ist, der will nicht, dass sie bleibt.

A design that doesn't take change into account risks major redesign in the future.

Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice

dynamically.