Steve Womack Quotes

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

We are fixed with every convenience, long desks, easy revolving chairs, footstools, plenty of servants and no specific work to be done.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.

We know the number of conference rooms and phone booths that make a building successful.

As our company has grown, how we configure and design our offices has been a crucial part of how we foster connection and collaboration throughout our teams.

Honestly, it's the luck of the draw. If you are comfortable with the actor that you're opposite of - it just breaks down a lot of those insecurities and you can just say, "Okay, I trust this person, and I respect them and know they respect me," and then you can just go with it. When that doesn't exist, it's a lot harder to let go.

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

I think it's kind of human nature to always want to see these things as a competitive dynamic, that either technology companies have to win or the banks have to win and one of them is going to lose. It's not as black and white.

Most of the collaborations of technology were done by teams...Collaboration is key to creativity

We make tools for people. Tools to create, tools to communicate. The age we're living in, these tools surprise you. ... That's why I love what we do. Because we make these tools, and we're constantly surprised with what people do with them.

It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technology industry at its best, creates a situation where everybody can be a winner.

If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.

You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt.

Connecting everyone is going to be something that no single company can do by themselves. So I'm really glad that they and a lot of other companies are working on this.

I love working with Erica [Durance]. She's so much fun. And I love how flippant, comfortable, and casual the relationship is. There is so much humor there, and they make each other laugh. It is obvious how much they adore each other. I really like that.

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.