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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• Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications. We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Thinking, Wikipedia, Amazon

  "Forum: The Road Ahead". content.time.com. November 09, 2005.

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• It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

  Linus Torvalds

  Relief, Care, Stuff

  Message to Git mailing list, April 14, 2005.

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• What defines Web 2.0 is the fact that the material on it is generated by the users (consumers) rather than the producers of the system. Thus, those who operate on Web 2.0 can be called prosumers because they simultaneously produce what they consume such as the interaction on Facebook and the entries on Wikipedia.

  George Ritzer

  Wikipedia, Facts, Produce

  George Ritzer (2010). “Globalization: A Basic Text”, p.290, John Wiley & Sons

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• Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge.

  Susan Mann

  Technology, Support, Parent

  "The Global Search for Education: The Tech Report - From Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2015.

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• Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

  Indra Nooyi

  Design, Innovation, Female

  "Sports: By Women and For Women" by Indra Nooyi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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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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• 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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• This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Confused, Thinking, Disease

  Message to usability@gnome.org mailing list, mail.gnome.org. December 12, 2005.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Multi-touch-sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.

  Jefferson Han

  Allowing, Sensing

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• If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

  Rose Macaulay

  Winning, Suggestions, Language

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• while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Children, Friendly, Our Lives

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• Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Marijuana, Two, Boston

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• The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British sun, soldiers in far-flung outposts of the Empire doctored themselves with "a spoonful o' gunpowder in a cuppa 'ot tea." Purveyors and users of harsh laxatives were not afraid of being thought mean and unfriendly just because their laxatives were. But in America, the need to be nice is so consuming that nobody would dare take a laxative that makes you run up the stairs two at a time, pushing others aside and yelling, "Get out of the way!

  Florence King

  Running, Attitude, Nice

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• Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, Friendly, Way

  "The Pasteboard Past" by Witold Rybczynski, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1997.

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• man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.

  Ellen Sturgis Hooper

  Nature, Men, Thinking

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• For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

  Eva Figes

  Reality, Wish, Prejudice

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• Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

  Richard Stallman

  Phones, Long, Way

  "Is Android really free software?" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I'm not a marijuana user, so I always feel kind of fraudulent. I applaud this, I do recreational drugs, but marijuana's never one of those. People think because I talk about drugs, that I smoke pot. But I don't.

  Doug Stanhope

  Thinking, Marijuana, People

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• Everything has a personality: everything sends an emotional signal. Even where this was not the intention of the designer, the people who view the website infer personalities and experience emotions. Bad websites have horrible personalities and instill horrid emotional states in their users, usually unwittingly. We need to design things-products, websites, services-to convey whatever personality and emotions are desired.

  Donald A. Norman

  Emotional, Views, People

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• Too many companies believe that all they must do is provide a 'neat' technology or some 'cool' product or, sometimes, just good, solid engineering. Nope. All of those are desirable (and solid engineering is a must), but there is much more to a successful product than that: understanding how the product is to be used, design, engineering, positioning, marketing, branding-all matter. It requires designing the Total User Experience.

  Donald A. Norman

  Believe, Successful, Technology

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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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