Users Quotes - Page 15

• The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Ipods, Design, Doe

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• The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers. The countless hours that we - and the young, particularly - spend on our profiles are the unpaid labor on which Facebook justifies its stock valuation.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Want, Influence, Hours

  "Why I'm quitting Facebook". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

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• If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.

  Milton Friedman

  Compassion, Punishment, Drug

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• The success of any user generated content-related project should be judged in the long term. Try not to use it as a one-off campaign activation idea. Think of it instead as the beginning or continuation of an ongoing dialogue with your consumers.

  Damian Thompson

  Business, Thinking, Ideas

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• If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and you have to deal with that. It just cannot be a reason to take actions to exit certain markets.

  Robin Li

  Exit, Action, Reason

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• As devices multiply and usage changes, many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.

  Larry Page

  Technology, People, Important

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto - Read The Full Thing Here" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time. It's hard to imagine now, but when we started Google most people thought search was a solved problem and that there was no money to be made apart from some banner advertising. We felt the exact opposite: that search quality was very poor, and that awesome user experiences would clearly make money.

  Larry Page

  Money, Believe, Technology

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery.

  Donald Sadoway

  Phones, Missing, Dollars

  "The beauty of bendable batteries" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2005.

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• The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Challenges, Alternatives, Done

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• I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Jobs, Hands, Stuff

  "DVD Jon lands dream job stateside" by Annalee Newitz, www.wired.com. October 18, 2005.

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• The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.

  John Katzman

  Team, Trying, Needs

  "Founder Of The Princeton Review: 'I Hated Being A Public Company CEO'". Interview with Alexandra Mondalek, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Babelgum has no ties to individual content owners and distributors, and as a result our editorial strategy is primarily 'user-centric.' That strategy ensures the platform satisfies the needs of a potentially infinite number of niche audiences around the world.

  Silvio Scaglia

  Numbers, Ties, Needs

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• But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.

  John W. Thompson

  Clouds, Connections, Ends

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

  Lance Reddick

  Friendly, Quality, Becoming

  "Lance Reddick & Steve Adams Talk To S&A About Newly-Formed Christai Productions" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Powerful, People, Trying

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• We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.

  Blake Ross

  Thinking, Goal, Decision

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• I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.

  Yishan Wong

  Loyalty, Thinking, Games

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• I want to preserve the free and open Internet - the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.

  Julius Genachowski

  Jobs, Entrepreneur, Innovation

  "Conversation: Julius Genachowski on Net Neutrality". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.

  Yishan Wong

  Team, Thinking, Discovery

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• The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Average, Long, Giving

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• Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications.

  John W. Thompson

  Way, Wells, Application

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'

  Dave Barry

  Mean, People, Use

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• Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

  Linus Torvalds

  Stupid, Looks, Levels

  Linux-kernel newsgroup, May 25, 2002.

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• Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.

  Clay Shirky

  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

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• We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Google, Incentives, Want

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