Users Quotes - Page 8

• Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

  Randy Barnett

  Children, Missing, Drug

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• With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

  Bill Gates

  Ipads, Frustrated, Trying

  "Bill Gates: Ipad Users 'Frustrated,' Need Microsoft Surface" By Matt Clark, www.ign.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.

  C. West Churchman

  Information, Matter, Collections

  "Decision Support Systems: Frequently Asked Questions" by Daniel J. Power, (p. 23), 2004.

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• If the universe is a non-spatial computer, a 'time machine' is a program that allows a user to have the same (ontologically non-spatial) feelings or experiences that occurred or s/he merely feels to have occurred in the past, with an in-built function to have different feelings or experiences than those of the past, and thus creating a possibility to change the past or to rewrite history in a pseudo sense.

  Kedar Joshi

  Past, Creating, Feelings

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• UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.

  Linus Torvalds

  Philosophy, Home, Thinking

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• UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.
  It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

  David Wolfe

  Friendly, Operating Systems, Unix

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• Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers.

  Bill Jensen

  Simplicity, Decision, Needs

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• The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.

  Daniel Burka

  Smart, People, Design

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• I realized that there wasn't accessible, user-friendly content out there that really empowered people to find a way into the green movement.

  Elizabeth Rogers

  People, Friendly, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.

  Tom Peters

  Faster, Collections, Cheaper

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests. Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

  John Mortimer

  Running, Children, Party

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• [I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

  Dylan Thomas

  Freak, Poet

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• Microsoft has laid down the foundations for next-generation computing and is the founder in terms of providing user-friendly software - thereby increasing the number of novice users.

  Arfa Karim

  Numbers, Friendly, Microsoft

  Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

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• I actually think it almost works the other way sometimes: making a college textbook, say, look really "user friendly" tends to also make it look less "serious," even if nothing changes other than the design treatment.

  Michael Bierut

  College, Thinking, Design

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.

  Erin Hunter

  Evil

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• Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully. I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw a punch like you can. That was poetry in motion, Liss." She groaned.

  Richelle Mead

  Hey, Spirit, Like You

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.836, Penguin

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• Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore."... He turned from me with a sigh. "I need a drink."... "Oh, good. That'll fix everything. I'm glad in a world gone mad, you've still got your old standbys."... "What do you expect me to do?" he asked. "You could... You could... Well, now that you're here, you could help us. Plus, this guy we're meeting. He's another spirit user."... "Yeah, that's exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back. " He turned away again, and I heard him mutter, "I need two drinks."

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Girlfriend, Reality

  "Spirit Bound". Book by Richelle Mead, May 18, 2010.

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• If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment.

  Tom Peters

  Communication, Challenges, Important

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new markets for e-book reading devices and other hardware. End-users most of all want a wide range and generous amount of high-quality content for free or at reasonable costs. Like end-users, libraries want quality, quantity, economy, and variety as well as flexible business models.

  Tom Peters

  Reading, Book, Mean

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are "odd" but hold opportunity. I ask: how do they use the product, what motivates them, how can we clone them.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Opportunity, Focus, Understanding

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• A curious mind does not jump to conclusions but tests carefully and thoroughly. A curious mind will draw on all of life's experience to get to the big "uh huh." The curious cut the data by quintile, by segment, and by user.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Cutting, Data, Mind

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• Systems are corporate funded mechanisms for increasing efficiency; programs are user funded mechanisms for increasing effectiveness. Programs should generally be charged back to users, systems should never be. Allocating corporate overhead to the operating units is simply a mistake.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Mistake, Effectiveness, Efficiency

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Smart mobile phones connect you with 1 billion users worldwide, basically for free - you don't pay for the phone, you don't pay for the Internet, you don't pay for the wireless connectivity. Social networks let you add a new customer or a new agent, again for free.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Smart, Phones, Add

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• All this is a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it helps people establish what they value; they understand the sort of ideas they identify with. The curse is that they aren't challenged in their views. The Internet becomes an echo chamber. Users don't see the counterarguments.

  Edward Snowden

  Blessing, Echoes, Views

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Population, Tipping

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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