Steven Sinofsky Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.”

“People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.”

“While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.”

“After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences.”

“As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.”

“BlackBerry required tethering for some routine operations, and for many, the only way to integrate corporate mail was to keep a PC running all the time.”

“Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.”

“I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough.”

“Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.”

“Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.”