Building Quotes
Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.
Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.
Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
It's really building Air America that I'm focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.
We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).
When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.
Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.
In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for.
Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.
It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.
Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.
No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.
Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
Being an entrepreneur does require commitment. It is hard work, but it is also highly rewarding. So when you can look back and see yourself building a successful company.
I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!
I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.
Humanizing technology is about taking what's already natural about the human-tech experience and building technology seamlessly in tandem with it.
My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.
I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.
One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.
Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students.
Nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it.
Part of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind of American leadership that we need.
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.
I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.
I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.