Users Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.

  Edward Felten

  Worry, Comfort, Levels

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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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• 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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• We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility.

  Rebecca MacKinnon

  Responsibility, Thinking, Citizens

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• The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

  Wendell Berry

  Military, Independent, Technology

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.16, Counterpoint

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• An abundance of Twitter users believe they can troll and rant with impunity, no matter how debasing or even threatening their 140-character posts pose.

  Jonathan Capehart

  Believe, Character, Matter

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal performances, etc., keep using, abusers keep abusing!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Long, Etc

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• The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.

  Wendell Berry

  Art, Work, Names

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil

  David Ricardo

  Earth, Soil, Portions

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• On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Looks, Information, Firsts

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• Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.

  Linus Torvalds

  Confusion, Confusing, Complicated

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• There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers.

  Jim C. Walton

  Mean, Criticism, Connections

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• It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.

  Edward Felten

  Giving, Pirate, Drm

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• In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.

  Vinton Cerf

  Choices, Tolls, World

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• Microsoft has built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, .. That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but after a couple of years the blush fades from the rose. It's reality versus marketing.

  Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

  Loyalty, Couple, Reality

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• When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Ideas, Faults, Use

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• . . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

  Tom McCall

  War, Jail, Long Ago

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• You all know I have terminal cancer - and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on.

  Tom McCall

  War, Cancer, Stress

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• We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.

  Steve Jobs

  Television, Would Be, Use

  "Next up for Apple, it's iTV - the television that will respond when you shout at it" by Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.

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• New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things.

  Susan Sarandon

  New York, Car, Friendly

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal consumers of Viagra were poor young black men, then...selling Viagra would get you five to 10 years behind bars.

  Ethan Nadelmann

  Men, White Man, Land

  "Why we need to end the War on Drugs". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2014.

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• By leveraging the Unicode Standard, Progress Software is enabling its ASPs (Application Service Providers) and ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to quickly and efficiently deliver their business applications to the Internet and to users around the world.

  Joseph Alsop

  Independent, Progress, Around The World

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