Interfaces Quotes

87 quotes by 71 authors

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface. — Jeff Bezos
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages.… — Bono
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product. — Jef Raskin
An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and… — Aaron Koblin
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it. — Sigmund Freud
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the… — Gordon S. Brown
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. — Ben Shneiderman
A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would. — Joel Spolsky
The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out… — Eric S. Raymond
User interface is customer service for the computer. — Julie Larson-Green
You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made… — Jennifer Pahlka
A design is intuitive when people just know what to do and they donâ€™t have to go through any training to get there When a… — Jared Spool
It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are… — Dalai Lama
Since changing interfaces breaks clients you should consider them as immutable once you've published them. — Erich Gamma
[The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to the place of computing in… — Lucy Suchman
Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours. — Dalai Lama
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
The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design. — Steven Johnson
That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface. — Steven Johnson
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident,… — Ellen Lupton

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