Ben Parr Quotes

At any time of day, hundreds of different versions of Facebook are running on the Internet - with a changed color here, a moved button there - and the user response to each variation is measured. And the same is done with advertising.

My site is a little unorthodox without being totally inaccessible.

You should always look for opportunities to test innovations on a subset of users if you can.

I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.

You launch a site, and you see what works, and you continue to make it better.

Virality is not an accident. It is engineered. And that's why growth hackers beat traditional marketers.

My heart has always been in programming and marketing.

Netflix likes critical attention, and they like their analytics.

That's what fame is: solitude.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

When you get famous and rich when you're young, what happens is you start feeling insecure.

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.

I love Texas. Even if I am a little bit famous or a little bit popular... You go to places where you're not and just live like everybody else lives. I'm not crazy about this country in terms of the shape it's in, but I do think there are lots of great pieces to go to. I think I should take advantage of it while this country still exists.

The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

It's hard to be famous and alive.

I published so many books, which, for years, didn't get published here in America, at all - and which barely got any attention in England. So it wasn't going to take much to make me feel suddenly famous. So - yeah - after 20 years, I'm an overnight success.

People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.