Nat Friedman Quotes

After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.

It's important not only to have the right timing of when the hardware is going to be released but also when we are going to be able to introduce quality software.

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

When we got ready to ship out Firefox 1.0, the last set of things we did was to make it appealing to a consumer, to add the polish of a world-class product to it.

Not only because the product wasn't a great product, but remember it took us five or six years to ship it. Then we had to sort of fix it. That was what I might call Windows 7.

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

We're about getting all the people who want to compete with Samsung to be able to build devices. So we're kind of down at the guts level saying, 'Hey, we can give you the hardware, the sensor platform, the software you need to go build your own one.'

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.

I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.

The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.

Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market is less than $1 million. And the returns, when things work out, can be enormous.

'Instagram' is an app that only took 8 weeks to build and ship but was a product of over a year of work.

Our first product was Quicken, which is personal financial management on a PC. It had a tough start, and we ran some tracking surveys to understand who was using it. Half the users claimed to use it in some sort of office environment. We ignored that. I thought it was meaningless.

In any software work, you have IT consultancy competence required to build the systems.

Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.

There's a myriad of things that go into why movies don't happen right when you make them. If you make a movie in 2010, sometimes it takes up to a year for post-production, and that puts you into 2011, then you have to figure out what your product is, and that takes some time.

Even though Traf-O-Data wasn't a roaring success, it was seminal in preparing us to make Microsoft's first product a couple of years later.

It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.

Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.

I'm a Windows guy. I have been for many, many years. I play games, and it's where games run, baby.

Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.

Venom,' we worked all the way up until the release. It was one of the latest things you could possibly push the schedule to. We actually finished it two weeks before it had to go everywhere throughout the world.