A User Quotes

#1. The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Fred Wilson

#2. But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he'd come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.

Penelope Douglas

#3. UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.
It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

David Wolfe

#4. Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

Marissa Mayer

#5. I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.

Mary Meeker

#6. I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.

Aaron Patzer

#7. Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply.

Don Chipp

#8. At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.

Aaron Patzer

#9. My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider.

David Naylor

#10. The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.

Kevin McCarthy

#11. This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.

Faye Snyder

#12. But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.

John W. Thompson

#13. The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.

Matt Mullenweg

#14. DivX Plus Streaming is adaptive bit rate streaming solutions, which means it works by detecting a user bandwidth and CPU capacity in real time and adjusting the quality of the video stream accordingly.

Alfred Amoroso

#15. A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

Joel Spolsky

#16. A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

Ted Nelson

#17. The very ability to empathize with a user requires that I have an understanding of that user's value and needs. This is what leads to many product fails. The individuals developing the innovation don't actually use it.

David Livermore

#18. The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

Mitch Kapor

#19. I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.

Ellen Hopkins

#20. The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

Rick Cook

#21. He did not blame them. Because in truth, that's what he did, what he was. Seduce and dominate. Charm and manipulate. A user of women. How they would scoff, Rothbury mused bitterly, if they knew that he was secretly in love with the silly little chit, spectacles and all.

Olivia Parker

#22. If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.

Jef Raskin

#23. Users want relevant content as advertising. As a result, the distinction between advertising and content is going away. All that matters to a user is relevancy.

Shailesh Rao

#24. Path does not spam users. Invites on Path are never sent without a user's consent - any allegations to the contrary are false.

Dave Morin

#25. Think about what a user is going to type.

Matt Cutts

#26. 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 spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#27. All of human literature could just be a user's guide to the multiverse!

Lev Grossman

#28. The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.

Peter J. Carroll

#29. There would be times when we'd rack our brains on a user interface problem, and think we'd considered every option, and he would go, " Did you think of this? " said Fadell. " And then we'd all go, " Holy Shit." He'd redefine the problem or approach, and our little problem would go away.

Walter Isaacson

#30. Remember - every "mistake" a user makes is not because they're stupid, but because your website sucks.

Peep Laja

#31. Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.

Thiruman Archunan

#32. I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don't indulge, you don't live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.

Grace Jones

#33. If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

Jaron Lanier

#34. I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.

Steve Ballmer

#35. 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 the world, but if it's not put in a form that's useful and desirable, you won't be successful.

Robert Brunner

#36. Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#37. The digital keys in a user's wallet are completely independent of the bitcoin protocol and can be generated and managed by the user's wallet software without reference to the blockchain or access to the Internet.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos

#38. Being certified as a user means you have basic knowledge and can turn things on and off;

Chris Hadfield

#39. Just imagine, how much easier our lives would be if we were born with a 'user guide or owner's manual' which could tell us what to eat and how to live healthy.

Erika M. Szabo

#40. Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.

Keith Teare

#41. We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy.

Mitchell Baker

#42. Look at every 'revolutionary' brand or category killer, it had an app, or a feature, or a functionality, or a user experience nobody else at that point could offer. I refer to this as 'the Killer App' principle.

David Brier

#43. Man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

#44. In New Guinea, as in other hot spots of endangerment, indigenous languages are a user's guide to ecosystems that are increasingly fragile and - in the face of climate change - increasingly irreplaceable.

Anonymous

#45. Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

Al Franken

#46. In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology ... and you can build software then, around the user.

Aaron Levie

#47. Twitter proved without a shadow of a doubt it is much more than a social network, but a user-defined infrastructure that can be harnessed to change lives and expectations, to share and enhance unique experiences and viewpoints. - Twitchhiker

Paul Smith

#48. Google+ will never have a user base to rival Facebook's. It just won't. Not even if you include the 'users' who create accounts so that they can use other Google services.

Shawn Amos

#49. It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more user friendly.

Douglas Coupland

#50. UX designers have to constantly learn about human psychology, interaction design, information architecture and user research techniques, just to name a few, in order to create the right solutions to a user's problems.

Jenifer Tidwell

#51. Available in HTML and CSS. In the absence of a font being found, the web browser will use its default font, which may be a user defined one. Depending on the web browser, a user can in fact override the font defined by the code writer. This may be for personal taste reasons, but may also

Anonymous

#52. If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.

Steve Jobs

#53. Sitting beside Abe was Adrian Ivashkov
my more-or-less boyfriend. Adrian was a royal Moroi
and another spirit user like Lissa. He'd been crazy about me (and often just crazy) ever since we first met

Richelle Mead

#54. I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'

Yishan Wong

#55. Librarians and other information specialists have developed user's guides to evaluating websites. These include questions we should ask, such as "Is the page current?" or "What is the domain?" (A guide prepared by NASA is particularly helpful.)

Daniel J. Levitin

#56. For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.

Nir Eyal

#57. Testing the business logic inside the system under test (SUT) via the user interface is a bad idea. Even

Gerard Meszaros

#58. Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

Brian Kernighan

#59. I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

Sara Sheridan

#60. We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.

Susan Wojcicki

#61. In the desktop world, you could build a successful business where a consumer only came back to you once or maybe twice a year. I don't think you can build that kind of business on mobile. You need higher frequency, or otherwise you fall off the home screen and the user never comes back.

John Collison

#62. A thing not structured and organized contains more information, because it is more difficult to describe

Tor Norretranders

#63. Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.

Jay Weatherill

#64. User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.

Nir Eyal

#65. As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

Jill Abramson

#66. Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.

Garry Kasparov

#67. Are you some kind of mutant human? Like a fire user? And I use mutant as a compliment, you know. I wouldn't think less of you.

Richelle Mead

#68. For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

Kevin Mitnick

#69. The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

Kathy Sierra

#70. I'm not a marijuana user, so I always feel kind of fraudulent. I applaud this, I do recreational drugs, but marijuana's never one of those. People think because I talk about drugs, that I smoke pot. But I don't.

Doug Stanhope

#71. You're not user-friendly. You're too needy. You have no social currency. You're a freak. Without a normative side, you can't get in. That's it. Sorry.

Sarah Schulman

#72. If we continue to treat content as an extra to information architecture, to content management or to anything else, we miss a bright opportunity to influence users. Content is not a nice-to-have extra. Content is a star of the user experience show. Let's make content shine.

Colleen Jones

#73. Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.

Patrick Collison

#74. Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

Bill Gates

#75. Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

Bill Gates

#76. The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.

Aaron Levie

#77. Pinterest is offering consumers a way to discover things on the web, in a serendipitous way, with a beautiful user interface. So it's offering a whole new paradigm called 'discover' and allowing users to be creative.

Ron Conway

#78. I realized that there wasn't accessible, user-friendly content out there that really empowered people to find a way into the green movement.

Elizabeth Rogers

#79. Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#80. There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

Michael Nesmith

#81. If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there.

Alexis Ohanian

#82. Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection [of information]. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.

C. West Churchman

#83. A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.

Reid Hoffman

#84. [I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

Dylan Thomas

#85. The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.

C.A.R. Hoare

#86. A great app starts with a great user interface.

Anonymous

#87. What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!

Will Self

#88. Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.

Sydney J. Harris

#89. Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

Steve Jobs

#90. In Newcastle, Kurt announced from the stage, "I am a homosexual, I am a drug user, and I fuck pot-bellied pigs," another classic Cobainism, though only one of his three claims was true.

Charles R. Cross

#91. Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.

Pat Sajak

#92. In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

Linus Torvalds

#93. Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.

Weili Dai

#94. According to the British Journal of Psychiatry, marijuana can cause panic attacks. I don't know ... The only time I have ever seen a marijuana user look panicky is when they are out of marijuana.

Jay Leno

#95. bringing together the professionals, such as experience designers, user experience researchers, front-end developers and prototypers, under a single umbrella.

Anonymous

#96. Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

Layne Staley

#97. You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.

Peter Drucker

#98. The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

Arianna Huffington

#99. I woke up with a heart attack just out of my field of vision and with my dick in my hand, saying, I love you I love you I love you over and over ... And that my dear sweet love of my life, is how things were without you and I'd done everything I could to keep you from knowing that

Craig Clevenger

#100. As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH Eiffel USER conference, to celebrate.

Bertrand Meyer