Users Quotes - Page 7

• Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mistake, Giving, Trying

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There is thus little or no ability for an internet user to know when they are being covertly propagandized by their government, which is precisely what makes it so appealing to intelligence agencies, so powerful, and so dangerous.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Powerful, Agency, Government

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• If we're honest with ourselves, our user experience hadn't kept up with the competition. In the first ten years eBay created the market. Now we're positioning ourselves to innovate off our core platform. This is not a project. We're never done.

  John Donahoe

  Ebay, Years, Competition

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• They never differentiate between drug users and drug addicts... I've done most drugs there are socially, I never had a problem.

  Doug Stanhope

  Drug, Done, Problem

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• If we do have any iPhone users out there, I have incredibly great news for you. I've developed after about six months and finally perfected and it'll be out on the market soon, an app that you'll all want. It allows you to make a phone call.

  Kevin Pollak

  Iphone, Phones, Six Months

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• The iPod is a perfect example of Steve's [Jobs] methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, Ipods, Perfect

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

  John Sculley

  Apples, Design, Lenses

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Gmos, Income

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• I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Encouragement, Recovery, Keys

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• I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?

  Jack Levin

  Thinking, Iphone, Competition

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• Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, People, Focus

  "The strange love-hate relationship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs" by Matt Weinberger, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2017,.

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• The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

  Wilson Follett

  Language, Made, Speakers

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• I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.

  Mary Meeker

  Apples, Ipods, Investment

  "The Indomitable Mary Meeker". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Always drink at least 8 ounces of water or a sugar-free decaffeinated beverage with every meal or snack. If you are a heavy caffeine user, gradually reduce caffeine intake to zero whenever possible.

  Barry Sears

  Zero, Snacks, Water

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• What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspiring, Should Have, Data

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• These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

  Cory Doctorow

  Children, Naughty, Scare

  Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross (2012). “The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations”, p.66, Macmillan

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• We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

  Lewis Thomas

  Distance, Years, Satisfaction

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer.

  Nils Bohlin

  Science, Design Work, Safety

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• ... since birth control roots in a species of selfishness, the spiritual life of the user of contraceptives is also weakened. Women seem to become more masculine in thought and action; men more callous and reserved; both husband and wife become more careless of each other, and increasingly indifferent to the higher duties and joys of living.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Spiritual, Husband, Men

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• Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

  B. J. Fogg

  Technology, Simple, Simplicity

  B.J. Fogg (2003). “Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do”, p.33, Morgan Kaufmann

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• The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do. Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with users' needs. They must support relationships and activities that enrich the users' experiences.

  Ben Shneiderman

  Successful, Technology, Support

  Ben Shneiderman (2003). “Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies”, p.2, MIT Press

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• There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

  Danny Sugerman

  Drug, Black, Criminals

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• I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

  Sara Sheridan

  Book, Library

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• Cell phones have gotten so small, you can't tell who's a cell phone user and who's a schizophrenic.

  Bob Newhart

  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

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• The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.

  James Garner

  Challenges, Information, Internet Users

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