Users Quotes - Page 26

• Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.

  Donald A. Norman

  Communication, Design, Appearance

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Introduction, 2002.

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• Designed to ‘Effectively Frustrate’: Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users.

  Tarleton Gillespie

  Technology, Agency, Copyright

  Tarleton Gillespie (2007). “Wired Shut”, p.357, MIT Press

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• Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.

  Howard Berman

  Long, Competition, Levels

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• The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world.

  Peter Chernin

  Real, Phones, Cells

  " News Corp heeds call for mobile content" by Dominic Timms, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2006.

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• Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.

  John W. Thompson

  Jobs, Opportunity, Creating

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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

  Edward Felten

  Pigs, Dancing, Choices

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• The missed call and call back drama between men and women deserves its own user mannual.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Drama, Men, Deserve

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• The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Smart, Lying, Thinking

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• Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.

  Jimmy Page

  Guitar, Friendly, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

  John Adams

  War, Understanding, Drug

  "Justice Often Served By Jury Nullification". www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2005.

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• User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.

  Evan Williams

  Inspirational, People, Design

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• Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.

  Dan Brown

  Design, Effort, Research

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