Users Quotes - Page 22

• Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Brain, Multitasking, Way

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• In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Space, Google, Style

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• The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Updates, Lists, Hours

  "Does Facebook really care about you?" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. September 23, 2011.

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• The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Ipods, Design, Doe

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• There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

  John Doerr

  Thinking, Identity, Trends

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• I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Mp3, Media

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.

  Verity Stob

  Errors, Mind, Lap

  "Catch as Catch Can". www.theregister.co.uk. January 11, 2006.

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• Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

  Dan Farmer

  Song, Honesty, Mean

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• It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Safe Haven, Thinking, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I began to study marijuana in 1967... I had not yet learned that there is something very special about illicit drugs. If they don't always make the drug user behave irrationally, they certainly cause many non-users to behave that way.

  Lester Grinspoon

  Marijuana, Drug, Special

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• When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, People, Lines

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• To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Self, Design, Pay

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• I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.

  Richard Stallman

  People, Want, Golden

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• Tools may limit the user, but the utility of tools is limited by the skill of the user.

  Leonard J. V. Compagno

  Skills, Tools, May

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• For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.

  Nir Eyal

  Pain, Degrees, Action

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.23, Penguin Canada

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• For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.

  Ben Elton

  Past, Night, Kentucky

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• Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don't have 14 photos of yourself on the internet? You've got Facebook photos. People will find it's very useful to have devices that remember what you want to do, because you forgot... But society isn't ready for questions that will be raised as a result of user-generated content.

  Robert O. Becker

  Thinking, People, Want

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• If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

  Jaron Lanier

  Calling, Enough, Used

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• Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them!

  Kathy Sierra

  Giving, Want, Competitors

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• To the user, the interface is the product.

  Aza Raskin

  Interfaces, Products

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• Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.

  Evan Williams

  Communication, Fighting, Abuse

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• What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.

  Salman Khan

  Decision, Doe, Care

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• The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

  Fred Wilson

  Strategy, User Experience, Units

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• The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

  Rick Cook

  Ideas, Iron, Wizardry

  "The Wizardry Consulted". Book by Rick Cook, 1995.

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• ... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important.

  Donald Knuth

  Writing, Design, Important

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