Users Quotes - Page 23

• When key users told us something wasn't working, we fixed it - immediately.

  Stewart Butterfield

  Keys, Fixed

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• Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.

  Douglas Crockford

  Minorities, Cost, Offers

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.100, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Importance, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder and that there is nothing inherently "logical" about the preference of users in looking for one component rather than another of a compound heading.

  Hans H Wellisch

  Eye, Logical, Preference

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• The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.

  Edward Tufte

  Action, Common, Site

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• The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Politics, Computer

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• A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

  E. B. White

  Dream, Good Man, Special

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• Habit-forming products alleviate users' pain by relieving a pronounced itch.

  Nir Eyal

  Pain, Habit, Alleviate

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.28, Penguin Canada

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• The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell.

  Janusz Kaminski

  People, Directors, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• When technology is used as a gimmick it can be a terrible distraction. The trick is to harness technology in a way that empowers the audience, informs them and brings them closer to the action. CNN has always been an innovator on election night, with the Magic Wall leading the way. Tonight, for the first time, and we're going to put the Magic Wall in the hands of our audience. Along with our partners at Microsoft, we have built a tool to let our users drill down into the key races and access a great deal of data, real time, as the results are unfolding.

  Andrew Morse

  Wall, Real, Technology

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• Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Country, New York, Warrior

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• There is a safe, nontoxic drug called naloxone that can instantly reverse opioid overdose and prevent most of these deaths. But the drug war interferes with saving overdose victims in two ways: first, because witnesses to overdose fear prosecution, they often don't call for help until it's too late. Second, because the drug war supports the belief that making naloxone available over-the-counter or with opioid prescriptions would encourage drug use, the antidote is available only through harm reduction programs like needle exchanges or in some state programs aimed at drug users.

  Maia Szalavitz

  War, Drug Use, Two

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• You take a picture of yourself in some exceptional situation - skydiving or whatever. People always post those photos because it works - you're saying something about yourself that begs a conversation and that's what the users are there for.

  Christian Rudder

  People, Pictures Of Yourself, Skydiving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.

  Steve Ballmer

  Microsoft, Hitting, Want

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• My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider.

  David Naylor

  Spiders, Thumbs, Site

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• It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.

  Steve Jobs

  Knowing, Stuff, Way

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• You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Tools, Use

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• I am the unhappiest WordPress user in the world, I think it sucks.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Thinking, World, Wordpress

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• Individual freedom and drug laws contradict each other. In a genuinely free society, people are free to ingest whatever they want to ingest, no matter how harmful or destructive. What people ingest is none of the government's business. If drug users or drug addicts wish to get help, a free society provides the means to do so.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Mean, Government, Law

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• Users are innocent for they can not really make sure if their information is safe or not.

  Ma Huateng

  Safe, Information, Innocent

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• There is no such thing as "the user". Users... come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have widely varying information needs.

  Hans H Wellisch

  Color, Needs, Shapes

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• Think about what a user is going to type.

  Matt Cutts

  Thinking, Marketing, Type

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• Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

  Jessica Livingston

  Errors, Sight, People

  Jessica Livingston (2008). “Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days”, p.18, Apress

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• I think a successful company is one where everybody owns the same mission. Out of necessity, we divide ourselves up into discipline groups. But the goal when you are actually doing the work is to somehow forget what discipline group you are in and come together. So in that sense, nobody should own user experience; everybody should own it.

  Donald A. Norman

  Successful, Thinking, Discipline

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• User experience is really the whole totality. Opening the package good example. It's the total experience that matters. And that starts from when you first hear about a product experience is more based upon memory than reality. If your memory of the product is wonderful, you will excuse all sorts of incidental things.

  Donald A. Norman

  Memories, Reality, Example

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• I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.

  Steve Wozniak

  School, Play, Racist

  "Mac vs Windows?". Answer to the question from E-mail, www.woz.org.

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