Site Quotes - Page 23

• It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.

  Marge Piercy

  Character, Writing, Important

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Real, Men, Mirrors

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• Don’t forget: when you start a website, it’s not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.

  James Altucher

  People, Forget, Trusted

  "Step By Step Guide to Make $10 Million And Then Totally Blow It" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2017.

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• The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

  Warren Farrell

  Dirty, Men, Law

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• The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

  Bill Gates

  Charity, Nonprofits, Information

  "Technology Means Everyone Can Be a Philanthropist" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.

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• Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject.

  Crawford Kilian

  Attention, Common, Print

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• Text is, in some ways, on the way out, unfortunately. There are dating sites now that are just pictures.

  Christian Rudder

  Dating, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road profile with bland, middle of the road pictures seems like a bad strategy to me.

  Christian Rudder

  Strategy, Profile, Middle

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is difficult to use, people leave. If the homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what users can do on the site, people leave. If users get lost on a website, they leave. If a website's information is hard to read or doesn't answer users' key questions, they leave. Note a pattern here?

  Jakob Nielsen

  Keys, People, Survival

  "Usability 101: Introduction to Usability" by Jakob Nielsen, www.nngroup.com. January 4, 2012.

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• As for my store, most artists' sites send you to a third-party storefront like iTunes, whereas we're disseminating it ourselves. I was always uncomfortable with the thought of sending somebody who came to my site to buy something to some other store. It just occurred to me, "Why can't we do this?"

  DJ Shadow

  Party, Artist, Stores

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.

  Charles Jencks

  Art, Car, Perfect

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• We don't believe in limiting access to our product. We believe that making our ticket sales available on as many sites as possible is good for the studios and good for us. We have on any given day 25,000 show starts - five show times at 5,000 screens. We have 1M seats more or less in our circuit. So I have 25M sales opportunities every single day. Why would I want to limit access?

  Gerry Lopez

  Believe, Opportunity, Want

  Source: deadline.com

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• Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.

  Philip Greenspun

  Needs, Today, Remember

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• Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.

  David Adjaye

  Opportunity, Agency, Transformation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Start by putting yourself in your users' shoes. Why are they coming to your site? If you look at most Web sites, you'd presume that the answer is "User is extremely bored and wishes to stare at a blank screen for several minutes while a flashing icon loads, then stare at the flashing icon for a few more minutes."

  Philip Greenspun

  Shoes, Icons, Bored

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• Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.

  Eero Saarinen

  Rivers, Arches, Domes

  "Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect".

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• There are many random, unprotected sites online that appear safe to use and are ready to accept credit card information. You wouldn't give a stranger off the street your credit card information, so be extra cautious about who you are sharing it with online.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Giving, Cards, Use

  "How to Leverage the Web to Improve Your Personal Finances" by Alexa von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2010.

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• As you know, there were lots of huge marches around the country yesterday to protest the immigration laws. The marches had quite an impact on businesses. Restaurants had to close, construction sites had to shut down, the Yankees had to forfeit a game. ... Do you realize that Americans are now doing the jobs that immigrants won't do because they're out protesting?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Jobs, Impact

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• According to a new report, more than 700 fake Obamacare websites have been created. Security experts say it's simple to identify the phony sites because they are easy to log on to.

  Jay Leno

  Simple, Obamacare, Fake

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• Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through our covert system of signals. He was mostly bemused by the Democrats' primetime speakers and told me he used to be an independent, but for the last 20 years found himself voting mostly Republican. Then he corrected himself and said he votes for the American.

  Ann Coulter

  Block, Independent, Years

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• Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.

  Newt Gingrich

  Museums, Holocaust, Mosques

  "Newt compares mosque to Nazis". www.politico.com. August 16, 2010.

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• The Saw Is Family is a great site. You can quote me on that.

  Andrew Bryniarski

  Saws

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• Users scan a page looking for trigger words. If they find a trigger word, they click on it but if they don’t find it, they go to search. That’s the way it works on 99% of sites, although Amazon is an exception. That’s because Amazon has done a great job of training users to know that absolutely nothing on the home page is of any use.

  Jared Spool

  Jobs, Home, Training

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• Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Couple, Cutting, Past

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• A lot of the stuff I've done is inspired by the location. Usually my works are pretty site-specific. There are a lot of shows that are older works, but often when I do new work for a show, it tends to talk to the space or the idea of the museum.

  Ragnar Kjartansson

  Museums, Ideas, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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