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. 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

#3. 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

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

Marissa Mayer

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Gerard Meszaros

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

Brian Kernighan

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

Sara Sheridan

#11. 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

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

David Naylor

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Tor Norretranders

#16. 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

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

Nir Eyal

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

Jill Abramson

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Kevin Mitnick

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Bill Gates

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Aaron Levie

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Dylan Thomas

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

C.A.R. Hoare

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

Anonymous

#43. 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

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

Sydney J. Harris

#45. 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

#46. 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

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

Pat Sajak

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

Peep Laja

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

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

Anonymous

#53. 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

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

Layne Staley

#55. 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

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

Arianna Huffington

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it.

Bill Bryson

#61. Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers.

Markus Persson

#62. was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments," he said later. After seeing what Xerox called a graphical user interface (sometimes pronounced

Karen Blumenthal

#63. The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's also known as the 'user pay' principle. Every effort should be made to link the payment of taxes or fees to the cost associated with the government service.

Mark Skousen

#64. 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

#65. Hiren's boot CD from USB flashes drive: If you have locked yourself in a windows 8 or windows 8.1 PC, (i.e. you have forgotten the user account's password and can't access your computer), then Hiren's boot CD from flash drive can help you solve this problem. Hiren's

Stephan Jones

#66. And, by the way, thank you for drugging me with Ketamine in Nigeria. He now thinks I'm a recreational drug user." "You're . . . welcome?

Penny Reid

#67. Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not

Dennis Peron

#68. Wozniak would be the gentle wizard coming up with a neat invention that he would have been happy just to give away, and Jobs would figure out how to make it user-friendly, put it together in a package, market it, and make a few bucks.

Walter Isaacson

#69. 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

#70. Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?

Will Self

#71. I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.

Don Bluth

#72. One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.

Eric Schmidt

#73. 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

#74. The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world conventions, making information appear in a natural and logical order.

Jakob Nielsen

#75. 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

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

Mitchell Baker

#77. 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

#78. Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is not in any way a Linux system, except for the kernel.

Robert Love

#79. If we're honest with ourselves, our user experience hadn't kept up with the competition. In the first ten years eBay created the market. Now we're positioning ourselves to innovate off our core platform. This is not a project. We're never done.

John Donahoe

#80. Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company.

John Collison

#81. 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

#82. Gross's core insight, the one that now drives the entire search economy, is that the search term, as typed into a search box by an Internet user, is inherently valuable - it can be priced.

John Battelle

#83. They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security ... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.

Aaron Levie

#84. In a deep sexy voice, she said Windows don't turn me on.
I raised an eyebrow at her, Mac user?

Diane Mott Davidson

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

Aaron Levie

#86. The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly.

Guido Van Rossum

#87. The success of any user generated content-related project should be judged in the long term. Try not to use it as a one-off campaign activation idea. Think of it instead as the beginning or continuation of an ongoing dialogue with your consumers.

Damian Thompson

#88. 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

#89. As a wheelchair user, I am utterly obsessed with toilets, and all my friends know it. A simple invitation to the pub is consistently followed by, 'Do you know if they have an accessible toilet?'

Stella Young

#90. Never present a power-user option in such a way that normal users must learn all about it in order to know they don't need to use it.

Bruce Tognazzini

#91. Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

Isaac Asimov

#92. If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

Scott Adams

#93. Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.

Pat Cadigan

#94. Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.

Ernest Cline

#95. Beyond annoying our audience by trying to sound smart, we run the risk of making our audience feel dumb. In either case, this is not a good user experience for our audience. Avoid

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

#96. The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.

Edward Tufte

#97. website optimization, which is the art and science of enhancing the user experience of a website with the goal of converting users into customers. To see why this is important, you need to become

Richard Stokes

#98. Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successful.

Homaro Cantu

#99. Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.

Victor Koo

#100. I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple!

Mitchell Baker