Top 33 Quotes by Steven Sinofsky

When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

Despite demand, the BlackBerry avoided offering generalized web browsing support.

After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences.

Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.

From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.

When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential customer usage/behavior.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.