Jef Raskin Quotes

#1. Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.

Andy Hertzfeld

#2. Everyone is naked equally when they're born.

Jung Ae-ri

#3. If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.

Jef Raskin

#4. Real life can be hard, and when you get whisked away into a beautiful story - everything else disappears.

Loretta Lost

#5. Human logic [emphasis added] was forced on us by the physical world and is therefore consistent with it. Mathematics derives from logic. This is why mathematics is consistent with the physical world.

Jef Raskin

#6. The system should treat all user input as sacred.

Jef Raskin

#7. Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

#8. You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you are!

Joyce Carol Oates

#9. A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Jef Raskin

#10. A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

Jef Raskin

#11. Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all.

Wolfgang Kohler

#13. When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the house. So this suggests that there are a lot of leaders out there who are not doing an adequate job.

Tom Rath

#14. There are lots of love stories here ... They either end happily or everyone dies.

Lauren DeStefano

#15. Sympathy, Love, Fortune ... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!

Anne Frank

#16. The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#17. Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

Jef Raskin

#18. If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

Jef Raskin

#19. An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

Jef Raskin

#20. When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.

Jef Raskin

#21. Apparently, Alexis had no choice but to stop feeding Brayden due to something called mass-eye-tits...mass-tits...massive tits. Fuck! I don't know what it was called, but it had something to do with her tits.

K.M. Golland

#22. As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

Jef Raskin

#23. An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Jef Raskin

#24. Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

Jef Raskin

#25. 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

#26. A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

Jef Raskin

#27. It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

Barack Obama

#28. What users want is convenience and results.

Jef Raskin

#29. What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.

Jef Raskin

#30. I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. You know, except for the whole hooker thing.

Rachael Leigh Cook

#31. Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

Jef Raskin

#32. I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.

Jef Raskin