Jef Raskin Quotes About Computers

• Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

  Jef Raskin

  Funny, Time, Humor

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs (p. 128), 2004.

• Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

  Jef Raskin

  Computer, Classroom, Servant

  "The Macintosh at 20: Interview with Jef Raskin". Interview with Berkeley Groks, grokscience.wordpress.com. March 3, 2004.

• A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

  Jef Raskin

  Computer, Harm, Inaction

  Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.6, Addison-Wesley Professional

• A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

  Jef Raskin

  Waste, Computer

  Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.6, Addison-Wesley Professional

• If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.

  Jef Raskin

  Would Be, Today, Computer

• What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.

  Jef Raskin

  Jobs, Crazy, Ideas

• I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.

  Jef Raskin

  People, Design, Principles

  Interview in "The Guardian", October 21, 2004.

• I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?

  Jef Raskin

  Confusion, Design, Mind

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