Users Quotes - Page 11

• Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, People, Looks

  "Cutting social media no answer to flash mobs" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. August 19, 2011.

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• For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Home, Average, Viruses

  "Talk time: Kevin Mitnick". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2003.

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• I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root.

  Michael Salu

  Roots, Culture, Language

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

  Fred Wilson

  Jobs, Successful, Best Job

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• Sure, but competition is good for the user.

  Wietse Venema

  Competition

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• What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!

  Will Self

  Animal, Smartphones, Dumb

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• Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?

  Will Self

  Thinking, Names, Ideas

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• I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

  Elliott Smith

  Thinking, Drug, Important

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• If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.

  Edward Snowden

  Phones, Cells, Nsa

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

  Richard Stallman

  Movement, Software, Libre

  "Is Android really free software?" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

  John Tillotson

  Art, Hype, Deception

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• In many cases the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

  Linus Torvalds

  Important, Economy, Program

  "Linux's Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.drdobbs.com. January 1, 2002.

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• Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Real, Fighting, Tools

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• Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not that of the brand. I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root. So through essays and short stories I began exploring some of these things.

  Michael Salu

  Writing, Opportunity, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution.

  Juan Guerrero Burciaga

  War, Fighting, Rights

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• Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.

  Jared Spool

  Technology, Giving, Design

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• My basic rule is, if it could possibly come from the end user, it's not a run-time crash. But if it is my code to my code, I crash it as hard as possible—fail as early as possible.

  Brad Fitzpatrick

  Running, Failing, Crash

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• Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.

  Patrick Cockburn

  War, Thinking, Giving

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• Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.

  G. K. Butterfield

  Football, Player, Skulls

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• User interface is customer service for the computer.

  Julie Larson-Green

  Computer, User Interface, Interfaces

  "Microsoft is ready to open a new, easy-to-use Window" by Jessica Mintz, The Associated Press, abcnews.go.com.

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• The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

  Eric S. Raymond

  Use, Demand, Program

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• According to the British Journal of Psychiatry, marijuana can cause panic attacks. I don't know . . . The only time I have ever seen a marijuana user look panicky is when they are out of marijuana.

  Jay Leno

  Marijuana, Causes, Looks

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• Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user

  Pat Sajak

  Giants, Television, Wheels

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• A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

  Joel Spolsky

  Program, User Interface, Wells

  "User Interface Design For Programmers". Book by Joel Spolsky, www.joelonsoftware.com. October 24, 2001.

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• The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at identifying what a diversity of users perceive as problems.

  David Livermore

  Team, Diversity, Problem

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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