Users Quotes - Page 3

• The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Criminals, World, Predator

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• We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

  Henry Steele Commager

  War, Past, Silence

  "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.

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• We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

  Alexander Bickel

  War, Law, Judging

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• Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Running, Book, Home

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• Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

  John Wayne

  War, Mean, People

  "Fictional character: Davy Crockett". "The Alamo", 1960.

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• I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

  Jeff Bezos

  Creative, Energy, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Children, Law, Drug

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• A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

  Milan Kundera

  Ideas, Hammers, Tools

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• Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Beauty, Business, Technology

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• If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.

  Edward Snowden

  Phones, Cells, Nsa

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

  Elliott Smith

  Thinking, Drug, Important

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• Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?

  Will Self

  Thinking, Names, Ideas

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• What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!

  Will Self

  Animal, Smartphones, Dumb

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• We know that Google Earth and Google Maps have had a tremendous impact on Google traffic, users, brand, adoption, and advertisers. We also know Google News, for example, which we don't monetize, has had a tremendous impact on searches and on query quality. We know those people search more. Because we've measured it.

  Eric Schmidt

  Impact, People, Adoption

  "Text of wired's interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt". Interview with Wired, www.wired.com. April 9, 2007.

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• People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, People, Missing

  "News War" Interview, www.pbs.org. November 20, 2006.

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• One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.

  Eric Schmidt

  Loss, Connections, Negative

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• A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Language, Individual, Organs

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• Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully. I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw a punch like you can. That was poetry in motion, Liss." She groaned.

  Richelle Mead

  Hey, Spirit, Like You

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.836, Penguin

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• Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.

  Eric Schmidt

  Technology, Apples, Google

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• Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.

  Erin Hunter

  Evil

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• The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Powerful, Computer, Appeals

  "The Physicist" by Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 1995.

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• Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Jobs, Thinking, Artist

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• For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Home, Average, Viruses

  "Talk time: Kevin Mitnick". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2003.

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• Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Community, Way

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• We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users.

  Paul Maritz

  Microsoft, Shipping, Intention

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