User Quotes

246 quotes by 203 authors

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… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Are you a personâ€”with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprisingâ€”or are you… — Stephen R. Donaldson
This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a… — Alec Soth
The least flexible component of any system is the user. — Lowell Jay Arthur
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative… — Pat Pattison
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… — Robert Brunner
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
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. — Raymond Loewy
Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very sophisticated installation and… — Jeff Hawkins
The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality. — Marshall McLuhan
Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve. — Tim Cook
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… — James P Hackett
It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources. — Eric Schmidt
Trail conflicts can and do occur among different user groups, among different users within the same user group, and as a result of factors not… — Roger Moore
I resisted using EHRs while an internist in Boston, as I wrote in my blog, â€˜Why Be a Meaningful User.â€™ Over time, however, I found… — David Blumenthal
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… — Don Bluth
I think anything can be forced to converge. The problem is that products are about tradeoffs, and you begin to make tradeoffs to the point… — Tim Cook
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… — Andy Hertzfeld
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer things… — Jakob Nielsen
Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer… — Larry Tesler

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