Users Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.

  Max Levchin

  Thinking, Media, People

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• Keeping a 'CEO blog' or 'founder's blog' can be a great platform for engaging your users in a nontraditional way, reaching people outside of your product pitch and building rapport without selling them anything except a belief in your ideas.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Ideas, People, Way

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• It's fantastic to be known as a company that responds quickly to users, shares great resources and friendly banter with them over Twitter, and forges relationships on Pinterest, Facebook, and every other social media site out there.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Media, Friendly, Pinterest

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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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• Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Thank You, Pain, Marijuana

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• I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Two, World, User Interface

  "The qmail security guarantee" by Daniel J. Bernstein, cr.yp.to.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Hulu is about the shows, not the networks. The shows are the brands that users care about.

  Jason Kilar

  Care, Shows, Brands

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• You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Loyalty, Iphone, Apples

  "Hell Freezes Over: Warner Music claims Itunes is Digital Music Done Right" by Bryan Gardiner, www.wired.com. November 14, 2007.

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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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• 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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• Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Use, Microsoft, Demand

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