Users Quotes - Page 16

• Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.

  Patrick Collison

  Giving, Stripes, Cards

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• A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Beautiful, Dream, Optimistic

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• User experience is important to strategy.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Important, Strategy, User Experience

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• History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.

  Thorsten Heins

  Iphone, Years, Innovation

  "BlackBerry CEO calls Apple's iPhone user interface outdated" by Katie Marsal, appleinsider.com. March 18, 2013.

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• The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.

  Thorsten Heins

  Years, Iphone, Invention

  "BlackBerry CEO calls Apple's iPhone user interface outdated" by Katie Marsal, appleinsider.com. March 18, 2013.

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• The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.

  James Fallows

  Design, Feelings, Google

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• Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

  David Boies

  Napster, Vicarious, Infringement

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• Ron Paul warned everyone that the Patriot Act could be used against innocent American citizens. His critics said he was siding with terrorists. Now, either A. Ron Paul was right. Or B. All Verizon users are terrorists.

  Jack Hunter

  Citizens, Patriot, Innocent

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• Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users.

  Joe Greene

  Doing Things For Others, Return, Causes

  "New Facebook Changes Will Help You Change the World" by Joe Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2011.

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• I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

  Vinton Cerf

  December, Computer, Ends

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• There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

  Vinton Cerf

  Country, Numbers, Fundamentals

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• Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

  Vinton Cerf

  Today, Billions

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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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• Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Advice, Common, Tattooed

  "Crucial Steps in Combating the Aids Epidemic; Identify All the Carriers" by William F. Buckley, Jr., archive.nytimes.com. March 18, 1986.

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• Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

  Amiri Baraka

  Reality, World, Wells

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1966). “Home: Social Essays”, New York : Morrow

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• There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

  Michael Nesmith

  Song, People, Groups

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

  Robert Burchfield

  Errors, Computer, Miraculous

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• I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report.

  James L. Barksdale

  Educational, Past, Government

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• The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

  Brian Chesky

  Office, Want, Labs

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• Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.

  Dick Costolo

  Hero, Mean, Action

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• There is no better source of real-time news than Twitter. With the constant sharing of news and information, if you're an active Twitter user, there's nothing happening, big or small, that you won't know right away.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Real, News, Information

  "Five Mistakes to Avoid When Networking with Twitter" by Raymond Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.

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• That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

  Stephen Cambone

  Different, World, Information

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• The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

  Stephen Cambone

  Demand, Able, Accepting

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• It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Want, Scales, Products

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• The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

  John Doerr

  Next, Wave

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