Amusing Quote by Donald A. Norman Download Open image “It was always amusing to be inside Apple and read what journalists said we were doing” — Donald A. Norman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amusing Apples Journalist Said
“According to Inside Apple, Steve Jobs practiced dozens of times before a big presentation, staging and rehearsing so that nothing was left to chance.” — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
“Finally Jobs proposed Apple Computer. “I was on one of my fruitarian diets,” he explained. “I had just come back from the apple farm.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Great Unanswered Question in Life: Who took a bite out of the apple on iPhones, Macbooks, and iPads? — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“So we said, "OK, we'll do Apple Computer." In those days there was no money yet in this microcomputer business, and big experienced companies… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
“Jobs and Clow agreed that Apple was one of the great brands of the world, probably in the top five based on emotional appeal,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
That has always been the objective of Apple: to do things that really enrich people's lives. That you look back on and you wonder,… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
“Despite his famously hearty laugh and cheerful public persona, he is capable of the same kind of acerbic outbursts as Apple’s late founder, Steve… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they want to… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
“key to winning the race is not to compete against machines but to compete with machines.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning,… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“We need to remove the word failure from our vocabulary, replacing it instead with learning experience. To fail is to learn: we learn more… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the… — Stephen D. Cox Copy Share Image
Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou Copy Share Image