Users Quotes - Page 25

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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."

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Matt Mullenweg

  Thinking, World, Wordpress

  4 Copy quote

• 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”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  David Naylor

  Spiders, Thumbs, Site

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• Designers are not users.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Design, Designer

  "Usability Engineering". Book by Jakob Nielsen, 1993.

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

  Marissa Mayer

  Needs, Selling, Theory

  6 Copy quote

• Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users sentiments.

  Meg Whitman

  Understanding, Littles, Sometimes

  6 Copy quote

• End-users not technologies shape the market. Consequently marketers need to stay abreast not only of technological developments but also of the way people respond to them.

  Matt Haig

  Technology, Phones, Technological Development

  Matt Haig (2002). “Mobile Marketing: The Message Revolution”, p.191, Kogan Page Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

  Bill Gates

  Average, Brain, Spiders

  "The Bill Gates Interview". Interview with Andrew Lephter, Pointless Waste of Time Website, slated.org. February 21, 2000.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mind, Weakness, Mouths

  5 Copy quote

• She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Country, Children

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted

  Cecelia Ahern

  Life Sucks, Soul, Floating

  Cecelia Ahern (2011). “The Time of My Life”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We make every effort to bring the newest and most innovative technology to our enthusiastic customers, drawing on the best in the industry. Our collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies on the Snapdragon 810-powered Mi Note Pro provides us the ability to deliver more performance, features and user capabilities to a mobile device than ever before.

  Lei Jun

  Technology, Drawing, Effort

  "Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Processor Powers Premium Tier Mobile Experiences of 2015". www.qualcomm.com. February 2, 2015.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.

  Edward Felten

  Pigs, Dancing, Choices

  7 Copy quote

• Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.

  Michael Eisner

  Views, Background Noise, Appreciate

  7 Copy quote

• If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Problem, Entrepreneurship

  "Apple’s “Just Encase” Answer to iPhone 4 Complaints". Live Blog, allthingsd.com. July 16, 2010.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.

  Jaron Lanier

  Successful, Adults, Fiction

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto”, p.73, Penguin UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full on smoking and drinking. And I am also the type of drug user where I do smoke and drink, there's no creativity in terms of my writing process. I would just stare at the paper for hours and nothing would get done.

  Ryan Lewis

  Drinking, Writing, Creativity

  Source: respect-mag.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never sensed really bad blood between Microsoft and Apple. A lot of Macintosh users feel badly about PCs and do have some bad feelings. I call them Macintosh bigots a little. They say, oh, no, only the Macintosh is the good one, and I don't like to be that way.

  Steve Wozniak

  Apples, Blood, Feelings

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don't indulge, you don't live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.

  Grace Jones

  Believe, Might, Outlets

  13 Copy quote