Users Quotes - Page 7

• I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

  Bruce Schneier

  Average, Answers, Internet Users

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• A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

  Joel Spolsky

  Program, User Interface, Wells

  "User Interface Design For Programmers". Book by Joel Spolsky, www.joelonsoftware.com. October 24, 2001.

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• Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user

  Pat Sajak

  Giants, Television, Wheels

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• According to the British Journal of Psychiatry, marijuana can cause panic attacks. I don't know . . . The only time I have ever seen a marijuana user look panicky is when they are out of marijuana.

  Jay Leno

  Marijuana, Causes, Looks

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• The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

  Eric S. Raymond

  Use, Demand, Program

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• User interface is customer service for the computer.

  Julie Larson-Green

  Computer, User Interface, Interfaces

  "Microsoft is ready to open a new, easy-to-use Window" by Jessica Mintz, The Associated Press, abcnews.go.com.

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• Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.

  G. K. Butterfield

  Football, Player, Skulls

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• Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.

  Patrick Cockburn

  War, Thinking, Giving

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• My basic rule is, if it could possibly come from the end user, it's not a run-time crash. But if it is my code to my code, I crash it as hard as possible—fail as early as possible.

  Brad Fitzpatrick

  Running, Failing, Crash

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• Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.

  Jared Spool

  Technology, Giving, Design

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• When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it.

  Jared Spool

  Creating, Design, Needs

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• Users scan a page looking for trigger words. If they find a trigger word, they click on it but if they don’t find it, they go to search. That’s the way it works on 99% of sites, although Amazon is an exception. That’s because Amazon has done a great job of training users to know that absolutely nothing on the home page is of any use.

  Jared Spool

  Jobs, Home, Training

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• The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized institutions is that standards would be lowered as a result. The standards the objectors have in mind, however, are not something that cam be achieved with available resources, but, rather, represent the objector's own notion of what housing ought to be.

  John Turner

  Mind, Would Be, Common

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• My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

  Melinda Gates

  Running, School, Marketing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name or web address. Millions of people do this, emphasizing the need for on- and off-line marketing and branding.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Names, People, Marketing

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Good design allows things to operate more efficiently, smoothly, and comfortably for the user. That's the real source of advantage. Businesses have started to understand this, so good design will become the price of entry. ... Customers appreciate good design. While they can't necessarily point out what specifically makes it good, they know it feels better. There's a visceral connection. They are willing to pay for it, if you give them a great experience.

  James P Hackett

  Real, Feel Better, Appreciate

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• Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.

  Jacques Barzun

  Men, Organization, Giving

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• The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Past, Technology, Reality

  László Moholy-Nagy, Renate Heyne, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Molderings (2009). “Moholy-Nagy: the photograms : catalogue raisonné”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Country, Marijuana, Drug

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• My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.

  Meg Whitman

  Thinking, Views, Matter

  "Meg Whitman's Exit Interview". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Are you a person—with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprising—or are you a tool? A tool just serves its user. It’s only as good as the skill of its user, and it’s not good for anything else. So if you want to accomplish something special—something more than you can do for yourself—you can’t use a tool. You have to use a person and hope the surprises will work in your favor. You have to use something that’s free to not be what you had in mind.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Determination, Skills, Mind

  Stephen R. Donaldson (1982). “The One Tree”, Del Rey

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• Many companies operate from more of a command-and-control environment - they decide what's going to happen at headquarters and have the organization execute. That doesn't work here because it's the community of users who really have control.
  
  So we enable, not direct. We think of our customers as people, not wallets. And that has implications for how we run the company. We partner with our customers and let them take the company where they think it's best utilized.

  Meg Whitman

  Running, Thinking, Command And Control

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• [According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Technology, African American, Population

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• We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.

  John Kaplan

  Real, Law, Liberty

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• First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.

  David Filo

  People, Marketing, Add

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