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Steve Yegge Quotes

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“When software -- or idea-ware for that matter -- fails to be accessible to anyone for any reason, it is the fault of the software or of the messaging of the idea. It is an Accessibility failure.”
— Steve Yegge, Stevey's Google Platforms Rant- was at Amazon for about six and a half years,…
Tagged: Platform, Building Software, Extensibility, Accessibility, Google, Amazon
“A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product.”
— Steve Yegge, Stevey's Google Platforms Rant- was at Amazon for about six and a half years,…
Tagged: Platform, Building Software, Extensibility, Accessibility, Google, Amazon
“The other big realization he had was that he can't always build the right thing. I think Larry Tesler might have struck some kind of chord in Bezos when he said his mom couldn't use the goddamn website. It's not even super clear whose mom he was talking about, and doesn't really matter, because nobody's mom can use the goddamn website. In fact I myself find the website disturbingly daunting, and I worked there for over half a decade. I've just learned to kinda defocus my eyes and concentrate on the million or so pixels near the center of the page above the fold.

I'm not really sure how Bezos came to this realization -- the insight that he can't build one product and have it be right for everyone. But it doesn't matter, because he gets it. There's actually a formal name for this phenomenon. It's called Accessibility, and it's the most important thing in the computing world.

The. Most. Important. Thing.”
— Steve Yegge, Stevey's Google Platforms Rant- was at Amazon for about six and a half years,…
Tagged: Platform, Building Software, Extensibility, Accessibility, Google, Amazon
“Ironically enough, Wave was a great platform, may they rest in peace. But making something a platform is not going to make you an instant success. A platform needs a killer app. Facebook -- that is, the stock service they offer with walls and friends and such -- is the killer app for the Facebook Platform. And it is a very serious mistake to conclude that the Facebook App could have been anywhere near as successful without the Facebook Platform.”
— Steve Yegge, Stevey's Google Platforms Rant- was at Amazon for about six and a half years,…
Tagged: Platform, Building Software, Extensibility, Accessibility, Google, Amazon
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