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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• 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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• 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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• 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 three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

  Rick Cook

  Ideas, Iron, Wizardry

  "The Wizardry Consulted". Book by Rick Cook, 1995.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Jobs, Educational

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.40, Prabhat Prakashan

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• We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Desktop, Gnome, Bases

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• We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious goal because most large companies are not well-loved, or even seemingly set up with that in mind. We're lucky to have a very direct relationship with our users, which creates a strong incentive for us to do the right thing .

  Larry Page

  Love, Strong, Ambition

  "Google Beats Out Apple, Facebook, And Twitter For Most Popular Tech Brand: Poll" By Courteney Palis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Book, Heart

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What Men Live By and Other Tales”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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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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• 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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• 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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