Users Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Government, Data, Uranium Mining

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

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• Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other people do. Yet, we cannot live apart from each other in bowers feeding on nectar. We're in this together, this getting through our lives, as the fact that we are word-users shows.

  Nuala O'Faolain

  Country, Lonely, Heart

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• You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to the all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow.

  Gary Gygax

  Adventure, Land, Giving

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Player, Want, Serious

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.

  Douglas Coupland

  Real, Waiting, Friendly

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• It does not matter how awesome your product is or your presentation or your post. Your awesome thing matters ONLY to the extent that it serves the user's ability to be a little more awesome.

  Kathy Sierra

  Doe, Awesome Things, Littles

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• The best user experiences are enchanting.  They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

  Kathy Sierra

  Writing, Reality, Alternate Realities

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• She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Ideas, People

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• Are you some kind of mutant human? Like a fire user? And I use mutant as a compliment, you know. I wouldn’t think less of you.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Fire, Compliments You

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.253, Penguin

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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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• 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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• The personal wealth that's coming is absolutely secondary to the stories that I hear about our users who have given themselves some financial independence as well by starting businesses, and all the lives we've touched positively.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Independence, Stories, Financial

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• For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.

  Anais Nin

  Creativity, Reality, Drug

  "The Novel of the Future". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• For a product to really be sustainable, it's really got to deliver the goods for the end user. That drives the whole rest of the equation.

  Chris Kilham

  Medicine, Ends, Goods

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