Users Quotes - Page 5

• You can be so bad at so many things... and as long as you stay focused on how you're providing value to your users and customers, and you have something that is unique and valuable... you get through all that stuff.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Unique, Long, Stuff

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• With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

  Robin Hayes

  Government, Community, Information

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• If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so much customer support, as much as customer complaints.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Design, Support, Site

  "GE brings customer service to light" by Dana Gardner, www.cnn.com. October 12, 1999.

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• To initiate (user) action, doing must be easier than thinking.

  Nir Eyal

  Thinking, Action, Easier

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• Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

  Dave Ramsey

  Character, Evil, Moral

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• Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Debugging, Improvement, Programming

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.27, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Ideas, Next, Sometimes

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.40, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Mean, Way, Programming

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• Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Citizens, Information, Sometimes

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• Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet." Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas.

  Peter Stafford

  Sweet, Cactus, Peyote

  Peter Stafford (2013). “Psychedelics Encyclopedia”, p.133, Ronin Publishing

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• We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Nice, Empowering, Machines

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• Products with higher user engagement have the potential to grow faster than their rivals.

  Nir Eyal

  Engagement, Rivals, Faster

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• This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

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  Ram Dass

  Acceptance, Compassion, People

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.107, Harmony

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• If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Organization, People, Quality

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• In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Squares, Numbers, Programming

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• As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH Eiffel USER conference, to celebrate.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Use, Facts, Celebrate

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• User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.

  Nir Eyal

  Habit, Advantage, Company

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.17, Penguin

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• The price for using dark magic is death, so that goes a long way toward deterring users.

  Devon Monk

  Dark, Long, Magic

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.233, Penguin

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• Inher­ent qual­ity is part of absolute qual­ity and with­out it things will appear shoddy. The users may not know why, but they always sense it.

  Erik Spiekermann

  May, Ent, Knows

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• I'm a big believer in online communities and in user-generated content.

  Michael Dell

  Community, Online, Bigs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.

  Brenda Laurel

  Please

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• Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

  Alan Kay

  Media, Expression, Degrees

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• User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world.

  Michael Eisner

  People, Done, World

  "On the web, content is king". Interview with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. August 13, 2009.

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• I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.

  Roman Polanski

  Thinking, Drug, Would Be

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