Top 100 Quotes About Users
#1. new interfaces are most understandable when they build on what users (and audiences) already know.
Nathan Shedroff
#2. MG was nearly mythical, other than my entries - no interaction with users on
the off chance one was a Fernoza on the troll. And today proved I couldn't take a stranger bearing gifts at face-value.
A.E.H. Veenman
#3. Sponsored stories are not a great way to monetize mobile traffic. The phone is way more of a publishing tool than a reading tool. The attention users pay to the streams on mobile is far less than on the desktop.
Keith Teare
#4. Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.
Sergey Brin
#5. In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they have generated on the site and export it elsewhere.
Evgeny Morozov
#6. Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.
Jefferson Han
#7. Every time someone started shouting about the supposed monopoly of the Circle, or the Circle's unfair monetization of the personal data of its users, or some other paranoid and demonstrably false claim, soon enough it was revealed that that person was a criminal or deviant of the highest order.
Dave Eggers
#8. If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#9. Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.
Daryl Gates
#10. We are trained to teach users but are not trained to help them learn.
Suyog Ketkar
#11. Technologies as users interacting with other technologies as prompters, through other in-between technologies: this is another way of describing hyperhistory as the stage of human development
Luciano Floridi
#12. Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.
B. J. Fogg
#13. I think it is going to be hard for individual OEMs to create a platform on top of which people will write content and services and which users will transact.
Sundar Pichai
#14. Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic that goes through their networks the same, not offering preferential treatment to some websites over others or charging some companies arbitrary fees to reach users.
Marvin Ammori
#15. I believe the mobile OS market will play out very similarly to Windows and Macintosh, with Android in the role of Windows. And so, if you want to be in front of the largest number of users, you need to be on Android.
Fred Wilson
#16. I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.
Shawn Fanning
#17. Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users.
Cynthia Lummis
#18. We're not interested in bombarding our users with, 'Hey, play this game, play this game, play this game.' It gets annoying, it gets in the way of messaging, and it gets in the way of staying in touch with people who are important to you.
Jan Koum
#19. If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
Richard Stallman
#20. You take a picture of yourself in some exceptional situation - skydiving or whatever. People always post those photos because it works - you're saying something about yourself that begs a conversation and that's what the users are there for.
Christian Rudder
#21. Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
Vint Cerf
#22. Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.
Linus Torvalds
#23. The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.
Douglas Rushkoff
#24. Doing testing with real users (in addition to internal quality testing) can help you avoid the serious embarrassment of a failed product.
Brian Lawley
#25. This thrilled Zuckerberg, whose primary measure of the service's success was how often users returned.
David Kirkpatrick
#26. Essentially, you become a top tweet because so many people are engaging with that tweet. They're either retweeting it, or they're favoriting it; they're doing one of many things to indicate to us that that tweet is interesting and engaging to users.
Biz Stone
#28. If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and you have to deal with that. It just cannot be a reason to take actions to exit certain markets.
Robin Li
#29. First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.
David Filo
#30. The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.
Jakob Nielsen
#31. advanced socialbot software, a program to create and operate fake profiles that looked and acted like real people on Circles. Socialbots were designed to befriend real Circles users and dupe them into divulging their sensitive personal and financial information.
Scott Allan Morrison
#32. 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
#33. In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name or web address. Millions of people do this, emphasizing the need for on- and off-line marketing and branding.
Marc Ostrofsky
#34. Google and Facebook don't have "users" or "customers". Instead, they have participants under machine surveillance, whose activities are algorithmically combined within Big Data silos.
Bruce Sterling
#35. We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users.
Paul Maritz
#36. Twitter didn't make up the hashtag. Twitter didn't make up the retweet. It's our users. And people started using them so much that we decided to weave them into the product. I can't think of another company that has taken its users' actions and said, 'We're going to make them useful to everybody.'
Katie Jacobs Stanton
#37. People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.
Matt Mullenweg
#38. When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.
Nalo Hopkinson
#39. Users are trying to discover apps; we are trying to improve the app discovery process, and developers are trying to reach users. If you step back, it's a problem we solved with search and ads in search.
Sundar Pichai
#40. It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.
Ethan Zuckerman
#41. The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors ... Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.
Marshall McLuhan
#43. The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.
David Livermore
#44. Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.
Jesse James Garrett
#45. Users notice good design only when it is missing.
Suyog Ketkar
#46. Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.
E. Haldeman-Julius
#47. Chef and Ubuntu are often inseparable in serious server deployments, making mutual integration a must for our users. We're excited to offer Chef as part of the Ubuntu distribution and to deliver easy bare metal provisioning with MAAS and Chef.
Mark Shuttleworth
#48. Nobody can deny that Apple is fashionable, and most iPhone users buy the newest so they can be fashionable. To do this right, Apple needs a new phone every quarter.
John C. Dvorak
#49. Good information architecture makes users less alienated and suppressed by technology. It simultaneously increases human satisfaction and your company's profits. Very few jobs allow you to do both at the same time, so enjoy.
Jakob Nielsen
#50. To the user, the interface is the product.
Aza Raskin
#51. We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. We're getting 80,000 new users each day. And more than half a million people are connected via Skype at any given moment.
Niklas Zennstrom
#52. Broadening and deepening the relationship with our users and advertisers have always been our strategic priority.
Victor Koo
#53. Brain-imaging studies of drug users at that stage show that viewing a film of actors pretending to use drugs activates dopamine pathways in the brain more than does watching porn films. This
Robert M. Sapolsky
#54. The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
Alberto Manguel
#55. Start out by making 100 users really happy, rather than a lot more users only a little happy.
Paul Buchheit
#56. The price for using dark magic is death, so that goes a long way toward deterring users.
Devon Monk
#57. We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
Adam D'Angelo
#58. Fox Interactive Media's acquisitions of Newroo and kSolo demonstrate our commitment to empowering users with interesting tools that they can use to further enhance their online experience and online identity.
Ross Levinsohn
#59. The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook and other social networks can allow that to happen.
Yuri Milner
#60. Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
George Takei
#61. With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.
Robin Hayes
#62. Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.
Max Levchin
#63. Network administrators all share an abiding and passionate desire for one thing: We want our users to shut up.
Michael W. Lucas
#64. Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.
Bernard Tschumi
#65. But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me.
Robert Patterson
#66. Let's be honest, a traditional marketer would not even be close to imagining the integration above - there's too many technical details needed for it to happen. As a result, it could only have come out of the mind of an engineer tasked with the problem of acquiring more users from Craigslist.13
Ryan Holiday
#67. With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.
Kevin Rose
#68. Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.
Shawn Fanning
#69. They never differentiate between drug users and drug addicts ... I've done most drugs there are socially, I never had a problem.
Doug Stanhope
#70. Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.
Douglas Crockford
#71. I will fully engage myself to maintain CERN's excellence in all its attributes, with the help of everybody, including CERN Council, staff and users from all over the world.
Fabiola Gianotti
#73. Institutions that adopt systems and use them in certified ways in 2011 and 2012 could getting about $50,000 per doctor in total payments by being meaningful users of certified EHR technology over the period from 2011 to 2016.
Fred Trotter
#74. Hulu is about the shows, not the networks. The shows are the brands that users care about.
Jason Kilar
#75. It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
Hans Vestberg
#76. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.
Elliott Smith
#77. After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn't even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.
Mark Zuckerberg
#78. In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.
Peter Fenton
#79. I believe that this cooperation between Nokia and Konami will form the perfect match to share the vast potential of mobile entertainment content with users all around the world.
Hideo Kojima
#80. When key users told us something wasn't working, we fixed it - immediately.
Stewart Butterfield
#81. Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.
Edward Felten
#82. The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.
Anthony Liccione
#83. We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.
Jeff Atwood
#84. I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.
Wietse Venema
#85. Nobody is forcing anybody who is uncomfortable with the terms of service to use Facebook. Executives point out that Internet users have choices on the Web.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#86. If the Internet were planet Earth, the amount of space devoted to pregnancies, motherhood, infants, and toddlers would surely fill a continent. Of course, the Internet had an enormous investment in the subject: those future babies would be its next generation of users.
Christopher Bollen
#87. I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.
Ken Jennings
#88. If Web users do not get a response in seven seconds, then the user's attention could be lost forever.
Andrew Holdsworth
#89. Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications.
John W. Thompson
#90. I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but ... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.
Emmett Shear
#91. The war on drugs makes it almost impossible for drug users to get milder forms of their drug - and it pushes them inexorably toward harder drugs.
Johann Hari
#92. Utrip makes it easy for travelers to experience the destination highlights that most interest them, be it food, art or history. Just like a culinary experience, every palate is different, and Utrip is all about personalizing travel for their users.
Tom Douglas
#93. Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.
Steve Ballmer
#94. Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
David Boies
#95. We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.
Sundar Pichai
#96. US Energy Information Agency announced the availability of a new mapping tool that details the flood risk faced by our existing energy infrastructure. The map has icons located on sites like distribution terminals and power plants and allows users to overlay the existing flood risk on those sites.
Anonymous
#97. Library users tell survey researchers that they want access to more ebooks and they want libraries to offer more technologically up-to-date services.
John Palfrey
#98. The CEO of AT&T told an interviewer back in 2005 that he wanted to introduce a new business model to the Internet: charging companies like Google and Yahoo! to reliably reach Internet users on the AT&T network.
Marvin Ammori
#99. Compress Image Size is most wonderful and useful online tool that supports users to perform different operations related with image size, image format etc. This specific tool helps users to reduce, enlarge and change the size of images according to their requirements.
Compress Image Size
#100. What users want is convenience and results.
Jef Raskin
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