Users Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.

  Paul Thurrott

  Web Content, Ends, Standards

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• The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.

  Peter Drucker

  Needs, Tools, Made

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.434, Routledge

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• There isn't a single government agency that can't function. There's more money in this federal government, there's more money allocated than these people can possibly spend. They have to concoct asinine ways to spend it, like advertising for new food stamp users. I've gotten to the point, I'm just so righteously indignant and offended at the very idea that our government could ever run out of money when we've got a printing press, for crying out loud. Printed three and a half trillion dollars over seven years and flooded Wall Street with it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Wall, Years

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• We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends.

  Chinua Achebe

  Integrity, Struggle, Ordinary

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.169, Penguin

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• Your customer is not your user

  Clara Shih

  Customers

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• The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Book, Light, Hammers

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 397), 1987.

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• Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Produce, Bias

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.71, 1988.

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• The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Association, Reader

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are trying to perform with the device. [...] Professional designers are usually aware of the pitfalls. But most design is not done by professional designers, it is done by engineers, programmers, and managers.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Trying, Pitfalls

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, 1988.

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• Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't think of the user as making errors; think of the actions as approximations of what is desired.

  Donald A. Norman

  Attitude, Thinking, Errors

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 5, p. 131, 1988.

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• Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.

  J. G. Ballard

  Wall, Cities, Tyrants

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.

  Douglas Adams

  Fun, Wrestling, Technology

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.112, Del Rey

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• I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.

  Jimmy Wales

  Team, People, Needs

  "Jimmy Wales: Why the recession won't kill digital media". Interview with Susan Kuchinskas, www.imediaconnection.com. March 28, 2009.

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• Health care costs are on the rise because the consumers are not involved in the decision-making process. Most health care costs are covered by third parties. And therefore, the actual user of health care is not the purchaser of health care. And there's no market forces involved with health care.

  George W. Bush

  Party, Decision, Cost

  George W. Bush ate the third Presidential Debate in Tempe, Arizona, www.washingtonpost.com. October 13, 2004.

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• If you look at the banking business over many years, it's always been a huge user of technology. This has been going on my whole life, that people have been adding technology, digitizing services.

  Jamie Dimon

  Technology, Years, People

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are ... something else entirely.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Real, Thinking, People

  "The Markup Wars". www.jwz.org. 2003.

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• Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces.

  Erik Naggum

  Silly, Thinking, World

  "Pause for keystroke". groups.google.com. OCtober 6, 2001.

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• They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.

  Erik Naggum

  Games, Long, People

  Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace (Usenet article), groups.google.com. February 16, 1997.

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• If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city.

  Erik Naggum

  Cities, Car, Effort

  "What obstacles do Common Lisp programmers face?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. January 12, 2002.

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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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• The very ability to empathize with a user requires that I have an understanding of that user's value and needs. This is what leads to many product fails. The individuals developing the innovation don't actually use it.

  David Livermore

  Understanding, Innovation, Needs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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