Interfaces Quotes - Page 5

• (The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it's providing a perfect interface between the director and the performer. So there's no sort of long way around a viral committee of animators.

  Andy Serkis

  Long, Perfect, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.

  Elaine Equi

  Eggs, Looks, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a large armed division and interface with other senior executives in a team-oriented, multinational initiative in the global marketplace. Successful candidate will have above-average oral-presentation skills

  Winston Churchill

  Senior, Team, Successful

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• You know what I'd really, really like? What I'd pay MONEY for? A ZX81 with a disc drive. I understood the ZX81. It was so easy to interface stuff to it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Pay, Stuff, Easy

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• During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Years, Names

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• I have a senior staff meeting every day, with key personnel who interface with the players - coaches, the medical staff, our analyst department. This is a useful exercise as it means we are all across what is happening and they are aware of my expectations.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Senior, Mean, Exercise

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Technology, Government

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• The ecologist has a much more comprehensive and holistic view of the world. We're looking at the natural environment as well as the human built environment and the connectivity between the two - how do the natural environment and the human-built environment interact and interface with each other.

  Ken Yeang

  Nature, Views, Two

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Art, Thinking, Individual

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• I believe that any sort of changes to interface that allows people to get into games and enjoy games is a great trend.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Believe, Games, People

  Source: www.mercurynews.com

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• No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

  Alan Cooper

  Beautiful, Design, Would Be

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• If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

  Jaron Lanier

  Musical, Mind, Body

  "The virtual visionary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2001.

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• Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Successful, Design, Computer

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• Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces.

  Erik Naggum

  Silly, Thinking, World

  "Pause for keystroke". groups.google.com. OCtober 6, 2001.

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• I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.

  Steve Jobs

  Television, Would Be, Use

  "Next up for Apple, it's iTV - the television that will respond when you shout at it" by Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

  Dalai Lama

  Desire, Ethics, Indispensable

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• When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.

  Randall Munroe

  Sex, Tangled, Design

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• The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

  Steven Johnson

  Art, Technology, Design

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• The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart.

  Dallas Willard

  Heart, Buttons, Different

  Source: renovare.org

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• In Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that what's missing from telephones and computer interfaces is this ability to move around in three-space.

  Howard Rheingold

  Moving, Japan, Space

  Source: medium.com

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• On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.

  Ken Salazar

  Country, Native American, New Relationship

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• I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

  Bono

  Christian, Thinking, Fire

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• They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.

  Erik Naggum

  Games, Long, People

  Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace (Usenet article), groups.google.com. February 16, 1997.

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• Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

  Alan Cooper

  Survival, Computer, Sanity

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• Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.

  David Gelernter

  Beautiful, Learning, Winning

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