Billions Quote by Howard Rheingold

While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its human factors,…

— Lewis M. Branscomb

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is…

— Bill Gates

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

— Daniel J. Bernstein

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of…

— Bran Ferren

In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or…

— Maurice Wilkes

For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial…

— David Gelernter

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want…

— Roberta Williams

One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most…

— Fred Brooks

For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest idea is…

— Mark Weiser

The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.

— Boris Spassky

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

— Mitch Kapor