History Quote by Paul Dourish

“new interfaces are most understandable when they build on what users (and audiences) already know.”

— Nathan Shedroff

“Technologies as users interacting with other technologies as prompters, through other in-between technologies: this is another way of describing hyperhistory as the stage of…

— Luciano Floridi

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

— Francois-Henri Pinault

“Interactive designers may [...] recommend technologies that do not date as easily as others, such as touch tables rather than apps. One strategy is…

— Philip Hughes

“The diagnostics and modifications screens. Ugly and utilitarian, just like they have been since the very beginnings of visual user interface. They were beautiful.”

— John Scalzi

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close…

— Nicholas Negroponte

“New technology has never been an automatic feature of history. Our ancestors lived in static, zero-sum societies where success meant seizing things from others.”

— Peter Thiel

“Skills are skills; the same way tools are tools. How they are used defines the user, not the tools.”

— Megan Derr

“What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?”

— Peter Watts

“Human are the open books of the past, the machine of the present and an undisclosed technology of the future.”

— Ricky Saikia

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

— Hartmut Esslinger

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer…

— Howard Rheingold