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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• For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Thinking, Design

  "Author: Think twice about 'the Internet'". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2013.

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• One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place...By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site.

  Marc Benioff

  Moving, People, Buttons

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• You have to figure out what conversion means in your case. What does retention mean? What does activation mean? For every business, it's going to be slightly different because of the nature of the product and the kinds of people who use it.

  Stewart Butterfield

  Mean, People, Doe

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• Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company.

  John Collison

  Starting Out, Nimble, Size

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• When designers intentionally trick users into inviting friends or blasting a message to their social networks, they may see some initial growth, but it comes at the expense of users' goodwill and trust. When people discover they've been duped, they vent their frustration and stop using the product.

  Nir Eyal

  Frustration, People, Growth

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.31, Penguin

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• Drug users made me. They taught me. I didn't know how to work a scale; I didn't know what a gram was. Drug users taught me the business. They're going to teach it to the next guy, because they want a good drug dealer, one they can trust, one that's not going to rob them, one that's not going to cheat them out of their money, one that's not going to sell them fake dope. That was me. They're going to find another one because they're going to be looking for that guy every single day until they find him.

  Rick Ross

  Dope, Fake, Guy

  Source: www.brownpoliticalreview.org

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• If you had a magic wand today, and you had one wish - to wipe out all the drug dealers, take them all off the streets and put them in jail, no trial, everybody who sold drugs would automatically be convicted. You know what's going to happen? There's going to be new ones. Why? Because the drug users are going to create them.

  Rick Ross

  Jail, Drug, Magic

  Source: www.brownpoliticalreview.org

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• Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.

  Steve Ballmer

  Eye, Progress, Through The Eyes

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• Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Men, Atheism, Slave

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• The more users' expectations prove right, the more they will feel in control of the system and the more they will like it.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Expectations, Feels, Prove

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• Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

  Marissa Mayer

  Wonderful, Moments, Break

  "Marissa Mayer On Charlie Rose: The Future Of Google, Future Of Search". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. March 6, 2009.

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• Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.

  David Einhorn

  Challenges, Needs, Microsoft

  "Transcript of David Einhorn's Speech at the Ira Sohn Conference". www.businessinsider.com. June 2, 2011.

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• The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.

  Kathy Sierra

  Creating, Secret, Building

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• Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not

  Dennis Peron

  Medical, Patient, Cannabis

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• Cameraphones will be rejected by corporate users.

  Mike Lazaridis

  Rejected, Corporate

  "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most perspicuously needed and deserved; but that is just another way of saying that Americans have overwhelmingly expunged from their public understanding the strongest and most clarifying resources out of ancient and traditional European cultures. By far we prefer our familiar and user-friendly parochialisms, and there is no percentage in trying to pry these pachydermal plates apart.

  Kenny Smith

  Issues, Perspective, Understanding

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• The selection of MediLab came after an extensive evaluation process. The laboratory in Zambia presented many challenges such as rapidly expanding services and capacity, the need to coordinate laboratory services for 16 and soon to be 24 clinics in the Lusaka district alone, the need to automate recording and dissemination of results and the need for a robust, expandable, user friendly and technically supported LIMS system. The technology and international experience of MediSolution made MediLab an obvious choice.

  Craig Wilson

  Technology, Zambia, Choices

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• Diversity is power on the Web. Big sites may be bigger, but smaller sites will keep scoring higher for specialized topics, both in terms of their connections with users and in terms of each visit's commercial value.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Diversity, Connections, May

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