Daniel Lyons Quotes

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

Once your product is working, switch from not caring about this to caring about this a little bit.

I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?

I think whenever you have a product you are always trying to improve it. Whether it is a commercial project out on the market or it's a creative collaboration, you are always looking to keep you audiences more engaged.

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.

You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if there isn't a great version one.

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

You don't always have to start over to create an emotional reaction to your product. It's always powerful to deliver a breakthrough, but there's also a true art to making something great even better.

Innovation usually arises from somebody taking a product already in production and making it better: better glass, better aluminum, a better chip. Innovation always starts with a product.

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want.

When you set out to create a new product, you usually do not start by trying to think of something completely new. You think of a product or concept that is already 'normal' to the world and then try to make it better. You make it Super Normal.

Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.

I think the biggest challenge over time is that we stay creative and making sure that we continue to launch awesome products that people love.

One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'

When we launch a product, we're already working on the next one. And possibly even the next, next one.

I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day, and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.