Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.

At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology is huge. The amount of work it requires to store, scale and move this data is pretty intense.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.

Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them.

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

Dropbox is my life.

All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

Data is valuable, so let's be mindful of how we're sharing it.

I worry about Google's data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can't deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library.

With big data comes big responsibilities.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

We need a basic protection for people having access to their data and knowing where their data is.

I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a thumb drive.

The enterprise cloud is a very secure cloud at this point.

Data is cost. It takes money to create data, store it, clean it, and throw resources at it to learn anything from it.

Our view is that sensitive, contractual, market-moving, private data should be kept private.

We don't use the term 'big data' - not on our website, not with customers. Saying it sets up expectations, the wrong expectations.