Computers Quote by Donald A. Norman Download Open image ““Machines that give too much feedback are like backseat drivers.”” — Donald A. Norman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computers
“...good drivers are people who can put their brains on cruise control.” — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“Anybody who's spent any time with machines at all,' he added, 'and baby, that's us all, knows first and foremost there's only one thing… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“One day the wheels start turning and you just can't stop the machine.” — Deyanira Villalta Copy Share Image
“I am an excellent driver. In my mind. When nobody's watching. I could drive circles around you. And even East Los Viva. However, there… — Andrea Portes Copy Share Image
“Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.” — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that? — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
“What a waste to attempt to change behavior without truly understanding the driving needs that cause such behavior!” — Robert S. McGee Copy Share Image
We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want. — Don Mattingly 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 don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
“Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test: a computer is intelligent if you can't tell it from a human when you talk with it. No… — CJS Hayward Copy Share Image
Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to reach a… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
