Users Quotes

• If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

  Scott Adams

  Technology, Done, Condescension And

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• ...pay attention to what users do, not what they say.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Attention, Pay, User Experience

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• Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

  Rick Scott

  People, Drug, Study

  "Rick Scott says welfare recipients are more likely to use illicit drugs" by Aaron Sharockman, www.politifact.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

  Dan Brown

  Impact, Hands, Tools

  "The Lost Symbol". Book by Dan Brown, (Trish Dunne, Ch. 18), 2009.

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• To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

  Milton Glaser

  Mean, Design, Masters

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• Every friend of freedom... must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

  Milton Friedman

  Army, Jail, Alcohol

  "An Open Letter to Bill Bennett". Milton Friedman, The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 1989.

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• Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.

  Stephen Colbert

  Morning, Confused, Blue

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• Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

  Merlin Mann

  People, Sms, Literacy

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2008

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• For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Thinking, Design

  "Author: Think twice about 'the Internet'". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2013.

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• A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Needs, Innovative

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• I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

  Wietse Venema

  Change, Military, Feet

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• An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.

  Ken Auletta

  Google, Important, World

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• Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Friends, Technology, People

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• The principles of good human-to-computer interface design are simplicity, support, clarity, encouragement, satisfaction, accessibility, versatility, and personalization. While it’s essential to heed these, it’s also important to empathize with and inspire your audience so they feel you’re treating them less like a faceless user and more like a human being.

  Sharon Lee

  Encouragement, Simplicity, Design

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• Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

  George Takei

  Coming Back, Interest

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• From experience, I came to learn that ayahuasca bestows upon the user knowledge about a variety of topics, not only consciousness and perception, but also leads one to realize that what we perceive is an illusion.

  Pablo Amaringo

  Ayahuasca, Perception, Topics

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• Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Powerful, Book, Thinking

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• Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority.

  Larry Page

  Heart, Numbers, Priorities

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• The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve equally all his students, future users and nonusers of mathematics, should teach problem solving so that it is about one-third mathematics and two-thirds common sense.

  George Polya

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

  Francois-Henri Pinault

  Technology, Way, Computer

  "Meet Le Geek: Francois-Henri Pinault". Interview with Joe Einhorn, techcrunch.com. August 5, 2012.

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• Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'.

  Bram Cohen

  Thinking, Technology, Drug Use

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• Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

  Michael King

  Media, Way, Bigs

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• Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply.

  Don Chipp

  Alternatives, Might, Source

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• Every time you make the user make a decision they don’t care about, you have failed as a designer.

  Aza Raskin

  Decision, Care, Intriguing

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• Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Impact, Focus, Innovation

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