Computer User Quotes

#1. 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

#2. With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#3. Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very sophisticated installation and de-install but it's invisible to the user and happens almost instantaneously.

Jeff Hawkins

#4. People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'

Dave Barry

#5. Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

Tom Clancy

#6. At times i am so focused like i have been taken over by a remote controlled computer, although not user friendly.

Tina J. Richardson

#7. Everything I do from now on, I'll have a mustache. I can promise you that. I don't care who I have to convince. If you see me with a mustache in a movie or on stage in the future, you'll know that I pitched the idea.

Ty Burrell

#8. When I use a PC today I cannot understand why a machine with 1,000 times more processing power has a worse user response than the machine I was using in the late '80s at Acorn,' remarks Steve Furber. 'Well, I do know why it is, but it still seems the wrong answer.

Tom Lean

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

Bill Gates

#10. Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

Neal A. Maxwell

#11. Hell, yeah, Ryland. Man up and carpe girl.

John Corwin

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

C.A.R. Hoare

#13. 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

#14. Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

Nicholas Negroponte

#15. If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user.

Richard Stallman

#16. The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

Mitch Kapor

#17. 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

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

Howard Rheingold

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Stephan Jones

#20. Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to stumble across pornography.

Russ Feingold

#21. I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on." It was a trauma.

Patti Smith

#22. The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

Dave Barry

#23. It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.

Steve Jobs

#24. My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Melinda Gates

#25. The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood.

Michel Templet

#26. User interface is customer service for the computer.

Julie Larson-Green

#27. It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Teresa Of Avila

#28. I'm not massively into computers. I'm a fan of Macs because they're more user friendly, so I'm used to using them.

Matthew Kane

#29. The computer programmer creates the only path available to the computer user; the effect of his decisions on others is masked by their abstraction.

Michael Lewis