Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death. — Harry J. Anslinger
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. — Scott Adams
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. — Miguel de Icaza
Some bitcoin users see the hard fork as in some ways violating their most fundamental values. — Vitalik Buterin
To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior. — Jakob Nielsen
Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users' — Edward Tufte
Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves — Steve Jobs
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. — Raymond Loewy
I personally like hard forks. Particularly, I like the fact that they give users a measure of control, requiring them to opt into protocol changes. — Vitalik Buterin
My philosophy is, if I can provide a solution that the end user truly enjoys, then I think I have a chance. — Eric Yuan
Short Users Quotes
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. — Douglas Coupland
Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose. — Jerome Wiesner
SEO success comes to marketers who strive for stellar content and an impeccable user experience. — Brian Dean
User Experience Signals are the new SEO. — Brian Dean
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. — Theodore Roosevelt
Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites. — Maajid Nawaz
Designers are not users. — Jakob Nielsen
Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop. — Jakob Nielsen
It’s ridiculous that FTX US users haven’t been made whole and gotten their funds back yet. — Sam Bankman-Fried
Website will not require me to point and click and drag and search. — Jensen Huang
A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. — Peter Drucker
Although I have never worked in a community bank, I have been a customer, and I know from personal experience the special skills that these institutions bring to their customers. — Jerome Powell
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. — Jeff Bezos
If you're not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is. — Jan Carlzon
It’s important to treat your customers like guests and give them a great experience every time they come to your restaurant. — Glen Bell
You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact. — David Neeleman
Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong. — Don Porter
You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around. — Steve Jobs
Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it. — Timothy R. Clark
User Interface Quotes
Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'. — Linus Torvalds
A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time. — Jakob Nielsen
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. — Andy Hertzfeld
In many cases the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary. — Linus Torvalds
I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface. — Jeff Bezos
A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would. — Joel Spolsky
The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user. — Seth Godin
I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces. — Daniel J. Bernstein
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
I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it. — Steve Jobs
User Friendly Quotes
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover. — Bill Gates
I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient. — Mike Figgis
Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. — Niklas Zennstrom
Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality. — Lance Reddick
The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook and other social networks can allow that to happen. — Yuri Milner
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
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
This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people. — Ram Dass
Microsoft has laid down the foundations for next-generation computing and is the founder in terms of providing user-friendly software - thereby increasing the number of novice users. — Arfa Karim
Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends. — Michael Ventura
Human Experience Quotes
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world. — Sydney Banks
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are. — Paulo Freire
Architecture
is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it,
we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the
human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a
beautiful context for life's drama. — Frank Gehry
We learn...
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we both hear and see
70% of what is discussed
80% of what we experience personally
95% of what we teach to someone else — William Glasser
Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control to the mother is also the safest approach. — Michel Odent
The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced. — Liam Payne
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope. — Cornel West
This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience. — John B. Watson
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity. — Jane Jacobs
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. — Ralph Nader
Giving users easy access to many different kinds of digital assets on the blockchain and, particularly, tokens that are linked to assets in the real world, is crucial to seeing blockchain adoption reach the next level. — Vitalik Buterin
In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs' 'hashashin' that we have the English word 'assassin.' — Harry J. Anslinger
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens. — Cameron Sinclair
The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality! — Mordechai Anielewicz
Privacy is an age of universal email collection and spying, with millions of CCTV cameras and warrantless spying pervasive; privacy has become virtually nonexistent and, therefore, extremely scarce and desirable. Bitcoin can be a completely anonymous transaction that maintains the user's privacy beyond the reach of any authority. — Max Keiser
Global bonds are collapsing in their fiat currencies, which are collapsing against the dollar, which is fast losing purchasing power. It will be months & years before the average fiat user realizes just how much they're getting ruined financially. The new normal is poverty. — Saifedean Ammous
A study of more than 41,000 metformin users between the ages of 68 and 81 concluded that metformin reduced the likelihood of dementia, cardiovascular disease, cancer, frailty, and depression, and not by a small amount. — David Sinclair
I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners. — Don Bluth
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
Google doesn’t care how much time and effort you put into your content. They care about the user experience. — Brian Dean
Successful SEO is not about tricking Google. It’s about partnering with Google to provide the best search results for Google’s users. — Rand Fishkin
Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow. — Stephen Colbert
My journey with Zoom began with a desire for the independence to build something that would make users happy, a true video-first unified communications platform. — Eric Yuan
There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail. — Morris Sheppard
I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot. — Wietse Venema
On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week. — Mark Zuckerberg
Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet." Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas. — Peter Stafford
Good information architecture makes users less alienated and suppressed by technology. It simultaneously increases human satisfaction and your company's profits. Very few jobs allow you to do both at the same time, so enjoy. — Jakob Nielsen
A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with. — Jesse James Garrett
Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most amazing technology in the world, but if it's not put in a form that's useful and desirable, you won't be successful. — Robert Brunner
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