Users Quotes - Page 12

• These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

  Cory Doctorow

  Children, Naughty, Scare

  Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross (2012). “The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations”, p.66, Macmillan

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• The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.

  Nir Eyal

  Pain, Creating, Goal

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.34, Penguin

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• UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.

  Linus Torvalds

  Philosophy, Home, Thinking

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• What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspiring, Should Have, Data

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• My videos are coming from the perspective of someone who bought the device, used it and is giving impressions on the actual usage. Sometimes 2 different behind-the-scenes engienering decisions will yield the same user experience, in which case I won't even mention it.

  Marques Brownlee

  Yield, Perspective, Giving

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 18, 2014.

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• Cell phones have gotten so small, you can't tell who's a cell phone user and who's a schizophrenic.

  Bob Newhart

  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

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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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• I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Encouragement, Recovery, Keys

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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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• The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

  Wilson Follett

  Language, Made, Speakers

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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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• With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

  Bill Gates

  Ipads, Frustrated, Trying

  "Bill Gates: Ipad Users 'Frustrated,' Need Microsoft Surface" By Matt Clark, www.ign.com. May 6, 2013.

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• With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.

  David Parnas

  World, May, Bugs

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• UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.
  It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

  David Wolfe

  Friendly, Operating Systems, Unix

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• Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

  William Morris

  Art, People, Joy

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• Start by putting yourself in your users' shoes. Why are they coming to your site? If you look at most Web sites, you'd presume that the answer is "User is extremely bored and wishes to stare at a blank screen for several minutes while a flashing icon loads, then stare at the flashing icon for a few more minutes."

  Philip Greenspun

  Shoes, Icons, Bored

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• When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.

  Chris DeWolfe

  Mom, Growing Up, Dad

  "The man who put teenagers' lives online". Interview with Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2006.

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• Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.

  Conan O'Brien

  Today, Lasts

  Twitter post from May 18, 2012

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• I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?

  Jack Levin

  Thinking, Iphone, Competition

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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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• 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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• Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

  B. J. Fogg

  Technology, Simple, Simplicity

  B.J. Fogg (2003). “Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do”, p.33, Morgan Kaufmann

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• When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world.

  Ruchi Sanghvi

  College, People, World

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• Popularity is the product of two factors: (a) how compelling material you offer, and (b) how easy it is to access it. Host free pirated movies and users will flock to the site, even if it's difficult to use.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Two, Use, Host

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• Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers.

  Bill Jensen

  Simplicity, Decision, Needs

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