Quotes About Users

#1. 'Intermediary liability' means that the intermediary, a service that acts as 'intermediate' conduit for the transmission or publication of information, is held liable or legally responsible for everything its users do.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#2. Google is a business that gets paid when users want to see - want to click on - the ad. If we show ads that no one wants to see, we don't generate revenue.

Susan Wojcicki

#3. Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.

Stephen Colbert

#4. Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.

G. K. Butterfield

#5. My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.

Meg Whitman

#6. Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are
generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues.

Steve Krug

#7. Internet users should be able to choose where to go online and which applications to use. Comcast, say, shouldn't be allowed to block Skype just because it could siphon the communications giant's telephone business.

Marvin Ammori

#8. I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the
users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

Frank Herbert

#9. Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.

Maajid Nawaz

#10. Yahoo! is committed to building the richest set of premium and personalized content experiences for our users.

Ross Levinsohn

#11. We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.

John Kaplan

#12. Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#13. Get a version 1.0 out there as soon as you can. Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses.

Paul Graham

#14. Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

Merlin Mann

#15. We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.

Arash Ferdowsi

#16. Because Mint has access to all of your bank accounts and credit cards, we can detect fraud or unusual spending patterns faster than your bank, then send an email or text message alert to users.

Aaron Patzer

#17. The design's intuitiveness is factorized based on the stored procedures: the more intuitive the design is, the more the users can remember and recall.

Suyog Ketkar

#18. It's fantastic to be known as a company that responds quickly to users, shares great resources and friendly banter with them over Twitter, and forges relationships on Pinterest, Facebook, and every other social media site out there.

Kathryn Minshew

#19. More than a fifth of internet users will abandon an online video if it takes longer than five seconds to load.

Anonymous

#20. I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

Sean Parker

#21. Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that Internet users in China and elsewhere are seeking out and creating their own ad hoc solutions to access the uncensored global Internet.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#22. Users are a double-edged sword. They can help you improve your language, but they can also deter you from improving. So choose your users carefully, and be slow to grow their number. Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it.

Paul Graham

#23. Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

Reid Hoffman

#24. That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

Stephen Cambone

#25. Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

Rachel Sklar

#26. When Vern had described Meme users so estranged from everyday language that they didn't know what words they didn't know, I

Alena Graedon

#27. The neighborhoods I grew up in were poor and full of drug users. I don't think you have to look that hard to find those kinds of lives. But I also don't think you have to have experienced it really close to be able to empathize.

Jess Walter

#28. Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.

Niklas Zennstrom

#29. Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.

Bill Gates

#30. New information technologies are tools - and to have an impact, tools need users, who in turn need goals, direction, and motivation.

Moises Naim

#31. There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates.

Glenn Turner

#32. Keeping a 'CEO blog' or 'founder's blog' can be a great platform for engaging your users in a nontraditional way, reaching people outside of your product pitch and building rapport without selling them anything except a belief in your ideas.

Kathryn Minshew

#33. Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

Ralph Nader

#34. I want to preserve the free and open Internet - the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.

Julius Genachowski

#35. The U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would tax Botox. When Botox users heard this, they were horrified. Well, I think they were horrified. It's difficult to tell.

Craig Ferguson

#36. Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

Elinor Ostrom

#37. My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

Maurice Greene

#38. Does Facebook act as though I own my online life, or as though it does? Concretely: Can I control what data it shares with other users, with advertisers, and with business partners?

Eric S. Raymond

#39. Poorly written classes equal unhappy end users. That's not a happy equation.

Brian Overland

#40. To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remain focused on building cutting-edge technology and introducing new and innovative product offerings.

Jon Oringer

#41. For every woman, there is that one man who could get her to go anywhere he wanted her to go, do anything he wanted her to do - reach into her soul and turn her whole world on its ear - challenge everything she thought she believed.
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Lenore Wolfe

#42. Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.

Ethan Zuckerman

#43. We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

Miguel De Icaza

#44. Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

Charles Stross

#45. The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there's a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won't work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice.

Mark Hurst

#46. If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.

Trip Adler

#47. Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

Jakob Nielsen

#48. A regime that trawls for drug users or other petty delinquents will net a certain number of violent people as bycatch, further thinning the ranks of the violent people who remain on the streets. Incarceration

Steven Pinker

#49. A new helicopter service called Gotham Air is now offering users cheap flights from Manhattan to JFK or Newark airports that start at just $99. If there's two words I trust together in the same sentence, it's 'cheap' and 'helicopter.'

Jimmy Fallon

#50. She was lucky if he stood behind her. Not so lucky if he came to crush her. And a woman might only learn the truth of it - when he walked out of her life.
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Lenore Wolfe

#51. The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among users. Hackers vied to 'jailbreak' the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple's desire to keep it closed.

Jonathan Zittrain

#52. On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.

Eric S. Raymond

#53. Engineers naturally tend to focus first on the product and then on its users. For an anthropologist, it's the exact reverse: people come first, then the product.

Guruprasad Madhavan

#54. Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority.

Larry Page

#55. As devices multiply and usage changes (many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine), it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.

Larry Page

#56. I can't imagine that companies are uninteresting if they don't have a billion users. But I do believe, to have mass scale, you have to be in the many-hundreds-of-millions-of-users range, and there are not that many companies that get there.

Kevin Systrom

#57. Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.

Drew Houston

#58. Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#59. Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal performances, etc., keep using, abusers keep abusing!!!

Adela Popescu

#60. Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

Douglas Rushkoff

#61. Most photo apps before asked something of the users. They said, 'You produce, act, and perform.' 'Instagram' said, 'Let us take care of the secret sauce.'

Kevin Systrom

#62. Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.

Marilyn Ferguson

#63. Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all.

Michael P. Naughton

#64. On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.

Mark Zuckerberg

#65. Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.

Simon Mainwaring

#66. I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the benefit of all those other users' problems and solutions.

Steve Wozniak

#67. There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.

Linus Torvalds

#68. Pay attention to what users do, not what they say.

Jakob Nielsen

#69. With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

Bill Gates

#70. There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

Vint Cerf

#71. All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.

Andrew Mason

#72. The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

Satya Nadella

#73. The best advice for users is to think of the messages they post
as having about the same level of privacy as postcards.

C. James Goodwin

#74. I understand that most iPhone users want a phone that can do other nifty things, not a general purpose computer that happens to make phone calls. Strict control over apps minimizes the chances that someone will find their phone hacked or virus-laden.

Jamais Cascio

#75. Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road profile with bland, middle of the road pictures seems like a bad strategy to me.

Christian Rudder

#76. The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.

John Katzman

#77. Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.

Kevin Drum

#78. User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

Jesse James Garrett

#79. Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

Rick Scott

#80. Code is never neutral, and interfaces can signal all kinds of things to users.

Sarah Jeong

#81. The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.

Geoff Mulgan

#82. Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving.

Elaine MacDonald

#83. contribution of users is growing steadily larger as a result of continuing advances in computer and communications capabilities.

Eric Von Hippel

#84. Using theory can help to justify actions and explain practice to service users, carers and society in general.

Siobhan Maclean

#85. Equally important to having the right content is providing the proper tools for the users so they can quickly find the images and videos they need.

Jon Oringer

#86. Get your product into users' hands as quickly as possible and incorporate the crowd's feedback to iterate. Your customers will provide the data you need to chart the best course for your company and bury any competitor that goes it alone.

Jay Samit

#87. [According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

Ethan Zuckerman

#88. If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.

Alan Cooper

#89. The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.

Li Yuanchao

#90. When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.

George Osborne

#91. I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?

Jack Levin

#92. Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.

Dick Costolo

#93. Passionate users of social media tools such as email, blogs, microblogs, and wikis

Derek Hansen

#94. When Spotify launched in the U.S. in 2011, it relied on simple usage-based algorithms to connect users and music, a process known as 'collaborative filtering.' These algorithms were more often annoying than useful.

John Seabrook

#95. The best leaders ... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Tom Peters

#96. OkCupid has users from 18 to 80 on the site. And we get to observe all of their actions. We get to watch how they use the site, how they interact with other people.

Sam Yagan

#97. Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.

Emmett Shear

#98. Reagan's Drugs Czar, Carlton Turner, said that kids deserved to die as a punishment for smoking poisoned weed, to teach them a lesson. Two years later, he called for the death penalty for all drug users. On

Shaun Attwood

#99. My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS.

Dave Barry

#100. I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report.

Jim Barksdale