Users Quotes - Page 17

• I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

  Ana Castillo

  Language

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the viewer: The viewer is here, the art is there. So the viewer is in a position of desire and frustration. There were those Do Not Touch signs in a museum that are saying that the art is more expensive than the people. But I wanted users and a habitat. I don't know if I would have used those words then, but I wanted inhabitants, participants. I wanted an interaction.

  Vito Acconci

  Art, Frustration, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Have things to look forward to: Plan a trip, treat yourself to the spa, make plans in the future so that you can focus on what you're looking forward to versus how unbearable your present is. Understand that your brain is detaching. It's the same part of the brain that is activated as a cocaine user feening for their next fix. You're literally in withdrawal. Understand that it takes time for your brain and neural pathways to detach. You're not going crazy - it's just a process, and that process takes time.

  Amy Chan

  Crazy, Focus, Brain

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In government, I'm a strong believer in the need for reform of government agencies and departments. They - they have gotten fat and sloppy, and they're not user friendly. They are inefficient. They cost too much.

  Robert M. Gates

  Strong, Friendly, Believer

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We did decide that every addict in this film, Warning: This Drug May Kill You, would be someone who started out with a prescription for an opioid from a doctor. The story that hadn't been told is that the vast majority - somewhere around 80 percent - of current heroin users began with an addiction to prescription opioids. So as much as people might want to look at this and say, 'Oh this is really a heroin problem,' yes, it is a heroin problem, and no one is saying differently, but it starts more often than not with a prescription.

  Perri Peltz

  People, Addiction, Drug

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Fake news is a product of the internet that is not transparent. Fake news can spread online because as users we have no idea where any of the content we see comes from.

  Ramesh Srinivasan

  Fake, Internet, Online

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think young black men, or anybody, should get a criminal record for low-level use. You know, I don't think that we should spend our law enforcement time jailing or imprisoning marijuana users. But to solve that problem, you don't need to go to the other extreme of creating Big Tobacco 2.0.

  Kevin Sabet

  Marijuana, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We start to try to live in tomorrow and the future, and start to think about what we build today as a stepping stone to graduate users.

  Hosain Rahman

  Thinking, Trying, Stones

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• What is the user problem that once we solve users can't live without?

  Hosain Rahman

  Problem, Hardware, Solve

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• One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that we need, we try to make it ourselves out of whatever is available, whether that's rock or wood or ore or DNA.

  Annalee Newitz

  Rocks, Dna, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's no question here that every effort is made to earn as much money off tobacco as possible. At the same time, the same people who are doing everything they can to get every penny out of this product, are condemning its use, are bludgeoning and impugning its users, and denying them every day more and more places where they can legally use the product. In the process, they have been the architects of the black market. The people in charge of all this have themselves set the stage for black market circumstances to prosper and thrive.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Effort, Black

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.

  Kevin Drum

  Apples, Long, Benefits

  "Apple Hates Me. I Hate Them Right Back" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. August 31, 2015.

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• When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they checked my book out of the library, I'm delighted. I've always been a big library user, and feel a kinship with others who do the same thing.

  David Sedaris

  Book, Thinking, Library

  "Ask the Author Live: David Sedaris". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

  Kathy Sierra

  Cameras, Stuff, Photographer

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• In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Trying, Attention, Economy

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• If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

  Richard Stallman

  Exercise, Yoke, Unjust

  "Free Software Is Even More Important Now" by Richard Stallman, www.gnu.org. September 2013.

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• Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Technology, Law

  "Stallman's Law". www.gnu.org. 2012.

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• Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want.

  Kathy Sierra

  Giving, Want

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• There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.

  Donald Davidson

  Giving Up, Ideas, Philosopher

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• The Twitch community loves watching video games, chatting, and broadcasting. The average viewer watches over an hour and a half of video each day. Over two-thirds of our logged-in users chat each day.

  Emmett Shear

  Average, Games, Two

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• Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Icons, White, Males

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• Minimize the user's memory load by making objects, actions, and options visible. The user should not have to remember information from one part of the dialogue to another. Instructions for use of the system should be visible or easily retrievable whenever appropriate.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Memories, Use, Information

  "10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design". Article by Jakob Nielsen, www.nngroup.com. January 1, 1995.

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• The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Feedback, Should, Appropriate

  Jakob Nielsen (1994). “Usability Engineering”, p.20, Morgan Kaufmann

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• To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Running, Jobs, Waiting

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Interaction With Others, Bored, Trying

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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