A Quote by Elon Musk

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Elon Musk

Quote Topics

Design Work Any Broken Manual Needs Product

Quote Author

Elon Musk
South African - Businessman
Born: June 28, 1971

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

Bob Dylan

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Lee H. Hamilton

The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk when you're at the mercy of a few big spenders. When any one customer pays you significantly more than the others, your product inevitably ends up catering mostly to that customer's specific needs.

Jason Fried

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

Douglas Adams

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.

Paul Rand

I grew up having to do manual labor because people always told me that I was an ugly girl. I've never had the permission to be myself except for when I'm doing manual labor. Because in manual labor, it's about, 'Can you pick this up, can you move this here,' and I could.

Rain Dove

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

Joichi Ito

I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch of the imagination and aren't any rules, but there are principles. The first one is that art is a process, not a product. In fact, that holds true for damn near everything we do in life. The product is just something that happens. If you're faithful to the process, the product takes care of itself.

Andy Wilkinson

I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual.

Thomas Keller

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

Alan Kay

When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.

Dalai Lama

When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the job the customer needs to get done.

Clayton M. Christensen

When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.

Donald A. Norman

No product is an island. A product is more than the product. It is a cohesive, integrated set of experiences. Think through all of the stages of a product or service - from initial intentions through final reflections, from first usage to help, service, and maintenance. Make them all work together seamlessly. That's systems thinking.

Donald A. Norman

The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.