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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• Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

  Merlin Mann

  People, Sms, Literacy

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2008

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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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• For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Home, Average, Viruses

  "Talk time: Kevin Mitnick". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2003.

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• Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

  Steve Jobs

  Eight, Naps, Years

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.24, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Children, Law, Drug

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• 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.

  Milan Kundera

  Ideas, Hammers, Tools

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• Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Community, Way

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• Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Beauty, Business, Technology

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• The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Powerful, Computer, Appeals

  "The Physicist" by Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 1995.

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• I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

  Jeff Bezos

  Creative, Energy, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Running, Book, Home

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• What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!

  Will Self

  Animal, Smartphones, Dumb

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• The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Criminals, World, Predator

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• We know that Google Earth and Google Maps have had a tremendous impact on Google traffic, users, brand, adoption, and advertisers. We also know Google News, for example, which we don't monetize, has had a tremendous impact on searches and on query quality. We know those people search more. Because we've measured it.

  Eric Schmidt

  Impact, People, Adoption

  "Text of wired's interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt". Interview with Wired, www.wired.com. April 9, 2007.

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• Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Prayer, Philosophy, Book

  "New American Haggadah". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

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• Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

  Al Franken

  Home, Numbers, Phones

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• I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Jobs, Thinking, Artist

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