Once we believe in ourselves...

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

— e. e. cummings

Let us obsess about what is best for the end user...

Let’s obsess about what is best for the end user. We often make product decisions based on strategic alignment, partner requests or even legal advice — the end user doesn’t care.

— Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec tells all as company crumbles around him

iOS is a "feature"?

Interesting to see Apple iOS noted as a feature right alongside things like 4G and Wi-Fi in this survey question.

The mobile "war" is an illusion

The thesis that one dominant platform wins the mobile “war” is naive.

— Horace Deidu, The Post-PC Era Will Be a Multi-Platform Era

It is more important that innocence be protected...

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, “whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,” and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

— John Adams, via Daring Fireball Linked List