Users Quotes

• If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

  Scott Adams

  Technology, Done, Condescension And

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• ...pay attention to what users do, not what they say.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Attention, Pay, User Experience

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• Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

  Rick Scott

  People, Drug, Study

  "Rick Scott says welfare recipients are more likely to use illicit drugs" by Aaron Sharockman, www.politifact.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

  Dan Brown

  Impact, Hands, Tools

  "The Lost Symbol". Book by Dan Brown, (Trish Dunne, Ch. 18), 2009.

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• To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

  Milton Glaser

  Mean, Design, Masters

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• Every friend of freedom... must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

  Milton Friedman

  Army, Jail, Alcohol

  "An Open Letter to Bill Bennett". Milton Friedman, The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 1989.

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• Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.

  Stephen Colbert

  Morning, Confused, Blue

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• 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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• The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.

  James Garner

  Challenges, Information, Internet Users

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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 companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation

  Sohrab Vossoughi

  Design, Innovation, Company

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• The internet has grown so tremendously fast in our society. It is the fastest communications technology in the history of the world. (It) grew from almost a dead stop in 1995 to having 80 million users in the United States alone in five years. Nothing has grown that fast.

  William E. Kennard

  Communication, Technology, Years

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• 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

  Running, School, Marketing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name or web address. Millions of people do this, emphasizing the need for on- and off-line marketing and branding.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Names, People, Marketing

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Many companies operate from more of a command-and-control environment - they decide what's going to happen at headquarters and have the organization execute. That doesn't work here because it's the community of users who really have control.
  
  So we enable, not direct. We think of our customers as people, not wallets. And that has implications for how we run the company. We partner with our customers and let them take the company where they think it's best utilized.

  Meg Whitman

  Running, Thinking, Command And Control

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• Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Country, Marijuana, Drug

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• The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Past, Technology, Reality

  László Moholy-Nagy, Renate Heyne, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Molderings (2009). “Moholy-Nagy: the photograms : catalogue raisonné”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.

  Jacques Barzun

  Men, Organization, Giving

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• We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.

  John Kaplan

  Real, Law, Liberty

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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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• I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

  Mike Figgis

  Trying, Friendly, Cameras

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• A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

  E. B. White

  Dream, Good Man, Special

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Lying, Self, Expression

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