Users Quotes - Page 10

• It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.

  Sam Altman

  Love You, Products

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• I'm actually not a cannabis user frequently.

  Meghan McCain

  Cannabis

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• Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

  Brian Kernighan

  Class, Debugging, Bugs

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• The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Ideas, People, Entrepreneur

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• Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mistake, Giving, Trying

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet." Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas.

  Peter Stafford

  Sweet, Cactus, Peyote

  Peter Stafford (2013). “Psychedelics Encyclopedia”, p.133, Ronin Publishing

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• Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Simple, Cost, Skype

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• Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Friends, Technology, People

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• I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

  Francois-Henri Pinault

  Technology, Way, Computer

  "Meet Le Geek: Francois-Henri Pinault". Interview with Joe Einhorn, techcrunch.com. August 5, 2012.

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• Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'.

  Bram Cohen

  Thinking, Technology, Drug Use

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• Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

  Michael King

  Media, Way, Bigs

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• Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply.

  Don Chipp

  Alternatives, Might, Source

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• Every time you make the user make a decision they don’t care about, you have failed as a designer.

  Aza Raskin

  Decision, Care, Intriguing

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• If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so much customer support, as much as customer complaints.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Design, Support, Site

  "GE brings customer service to light" by Dana Gardner, www.cnn.com. October 12, 1999.

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• The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Justice, Imagination, Honor

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• The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve equally all his students, future users and nonusers of mathematics, should teach problem solving so that it is about one-third mathematics and two-thirds common sense.

  George Polya

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority.

  Larry Page

  Heart, Numbers, Priorities

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• In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Squares, Numbers, Programming

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• A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Needs, Innovative

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• I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

  Wietse Venema

  Change, Military, Feet

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• An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.

  Ken Auletta

  Google, Important, World

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• The principles of good human-to-computer interface design are simplicity, support, clarity, encouragement, satisfaction, accessibility, versatility, and personalization. While it’s essential to heed these, it’s also important to empathize with and inspire your audience so they feel you’re treating them less like a faceless user and more like a human being.

  Sharon Lee

  Encouragement, Simplicity, Design

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• Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

  George Takei

  Coming Back, Interest

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• From experience, I came to learn that ayahuasca bestows upon the user knowledge about a variety of topics, not only consciousness and perception, but also leads one to realize that what we perceive is an illusion.

  Pablo Amaringo

  Ayahuasca, Perception, Topics

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• Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Powerful, Book, Thinking

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