Usable Quotes
53 quotes by 47 authors
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In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing…
— Robert Fano
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It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and…
— Donald A. Norman
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
— Ferdinand Mount
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As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a…
— Peter Greenaway
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When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to 20% of usable…
— Richard Heinberg
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We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have…
— Tony Blair
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We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.
— Tony Blair
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Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is,…
— George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that…
— Linus Torvalds
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I am very happy about Android obviously. I use Android, and it's actually made cellphones very usable.
— Linus Torvalds
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To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person…
— Dave Winer
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Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected…
— Jimmy Reid
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has…
— Vance Havner
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But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and…
— Gerhard Richter
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The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
— Kenneth Burke
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I can go into a playground of kids that don't know anything about Christianity, lead them to the Lord in a matter of, just no…
— Becky Fischer
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Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and…
— Thomas Sowell
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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
— Ian Mcewan
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