User Quotes

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? View quote
Tom Clancy
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil. View quote
David Ricardo
In Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The system should treat all user input as sacred. View quote
Jef Raskin
I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away. View quote
Jimmy Wales
The user of the electric light -- or a hammer, or a language, or a book -- is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
You can converge a toaster and refrigerator, but these things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user. View quote
Tim Cook
It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment. (William F. Buckley)
A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds. View quote
Ted Nelson
I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas. View quote
Dan Rather
The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool. View quote
Peter Drucker
Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. View quote
Brian Kernighan
The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important. View quote
Kenneth E. Iverson
If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product. View quote
Jef Raskin
Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't think of the user as making errors; think of the actions as approximations of what is desired. View quote
Donald Norman
Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself. View quote
Donald Norman
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. View quote
Milan Kundera
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. (Melinda Gates)
Collective intelligence. Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications... We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected. View quote
Tim O'Reilly
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. View quote
Andy Hertzfeld
I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners. View quote
Don Bluth
In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery. View quote
Donald Sadoway