Robert Moog Quotes

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

Innovators are developing the ideas and bringing them to life in amazing new applications. All we, as an industry, need to do now is focus on standardizing the interfaces to ensure interoperability - and stand out of the way.

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

There's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasn't time for endless refinements.

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

Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.

The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.

To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remain focused on building cutting-edge technology and introducing new and innovative product offerings.

We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

The reason I like my job is that I have this desire to create. I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

To me, the more dialogue amongst creative types, the better. It keeps people on their toes, and competition is healthy.

Steve Jobs didn't seek solace among minimum wage workers. He sought it from highly educated men and women who understood and shared his focus on growth, technology, and company-building.