End User Quotes

#1. Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

Gary Vaynerchuk

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

Homaro Cantu

#3. People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.

Eric Schmidt

#4. 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

#5. When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

Annalee Newitz

#6. There are always going to be people who are experts in security or end-user devices or collaboration or databases. That's not going to go away. But what's the reason all of these professions come together? To help the business transform itself.

Satya Nadella

#7. 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

#8. Microsoft has built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, .. That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but after a couple of years the blush fades from the rose. It's reality versus marketing.

Murphy J. Foster Jr.

#9. must be able to understand the business aspects and requirements for the end user areas their applications support.

Derek C. Ashmore

#10. 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

#11. Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.

Thomas A. Edison

#12. We learned that very few people care how you accomplish something. Instead, these people care more about whether you create value for your end user.

Colin Angle

#13. My basic rule is, if it could possibly come from the end user, it's not a run-time crash. But if it is my code to my code, I crash it as hard as possible - fail as early as possible.

Brad Fitzpatrick

#14. Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology is huge. The amount of work it requires to store, scale and move this data is pretty intense.

Ruchi Sanghvi

#15. If you do not care about your end user immensely, especially in the next few years, your brand will die.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#16. What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.

Salman Khan

#17. Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

Ray Ozzie

#18. For a product to really be sustainable, it's really got to deliver the goods for the end user. That drives the whole rest of the equation.

Chris Kilham

#19. What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

Aaron Levie

#20. To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.

Timothy Ferriss

#21. Fundamentally, a mobile strategy needs to be based in the value to the end user and the enterprise.

Dirk Nicol

#22. I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.

G. Willow Wilson

#23. When people think of Mozilla, they generally think of the browser, but Mozilla is really much more than that. Mozilla is of interest to people who want an end-user application like our browser that's not tied directly into the Windows platform.

Mitchell Baker

#24. All the technology in the world is not going to help you if it's not intuitive and if the end user can't use it.

Robert Wachter

#25. The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who can go end-to-end designing, building, measuring, analyzing, and iterating with a combination of user intuition and deep analytics.

Matthew Humphreys

#26. 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

#27. I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.

Jimmy Wales

#28. 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

#29. FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has said that several foreign dignitaries personally spoke to him about creating a new Internet user fee to subsidize an international universal service fund at the expense of traditional end users.

Marsha Blackburn

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

Anonymous

#31. The iPod is a perfect example of Steve [Jobs]' methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.

John Sculley

#32. For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Ben Elton