Bill Buxton Quotes & Sayings

Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions ... that get us to the right answer. — Bill Buxton

If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imaginationto fit in. — Bill Buxton

My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function — Bill Buxton

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling — Bill Buxton

Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest when everyone in the studio working on the project has spent time with them. — Bill Buxton

The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place. — Bill Buxton

Always be a beginner at something. — Bill Buxton

When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch. — Bill Buxton

The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday. — Bill Buxton

Always be a beginner at something, and always be in love with what you are beginning. — Bill Buxton

If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old! — Bill Buxton

If I can see it, it's a failure — Bill Buxton

The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today — Bill Buxton