Interfaces Quotes

To the user, the interface is the product.

— Aza Raskin

That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

— Steven Johnson

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

— Jef Raskin

Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface

— Alexander Stepanov

Every application designed for 2D interfaces will be obsoleted by AR.

— Tim Sweeney

User interface is customer service for the computer.

— Julie Larson-Green

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

— Dalai Lama

Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

— Douglas McIlroy

The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.

— Thorsten Heins

When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.

— Randall Munroe

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.

— Matt Mullenweg

I believe that any sort of changes to interface that allows people to get into games and enjoy games is a great…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is…

— Nicholas Negroponte

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

— Marshall McLuhan

Since changing interfaces breaks clients you should consider them as immutable once you've published them.

— Erich Gamma

The new course we're on at Interface ... is to pioneer the next Industrial Revolution: one that is kinder and gentler to…

— Ray Anderson

For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just…

— Steve Jobs

As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction.…

— Jamais Cascio

It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because…

— Dalai Lama

The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that…

— Eric S. Raymond

The experiences that technology provides is very, very important, rather than just the backroom aspects of running things. It's just as important…

— Gary Shapiro

You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government…

— Jennifer Pahlka

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the…

— Anonymous

There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The…

— Robert Breault

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world's most comprehensive database…

— Julian Assange

I get so much from having the opportunity to interface with the younger people and to bring information to them and to…

— Wynton Marsalis

For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest…

— Mark Weiser

They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or…

— Erik Naggum

We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go…

— Vik Muniz

If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble…

— Tom Robbins

The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.

— Bruce Tognazzini

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

— Steven Johnson

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

— Jef Raskin

You know what I'd really, really like? What I'd pay MONEY for? A ZX81 with a disc drive. I understood the ZX81.…

— Terry Pratchett

Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.

— Ry Cooder

The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never…

— Bill McKibben

The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.

— Edward Tufte

A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

— Jef Raskin