Top 50 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. The government of Brazil had publicly proposed brokering a settlement between the United States and Cuba; Raskin, never afraid to speak his mind, suggested that the White House consider the offer. "Oh, no," Bundy said. "It'll take just one detachment and he'll be out of there.
Seymour M. Hersh
#3. A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
Jef Raskin
#7. If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.
Jef Raskin
#8. Every time you make the user make a decision they don't care about, you have failed as a designer.
Aza Raskin
#9. 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
#10. I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way out; I had to use the images from my own childhood, because the child I was is the only child I really know.
Ellen Raskin
#11. The system should treat all user input as sacred.
Jef Raskin
#12. 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
#13. She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn't for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.
Ellen Raskin
#14. A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
Jef Raskin
#15. Death is senseless yet makes way for the living.
Ellen Raskin
#16. Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler
Ellen Raskin
#17. When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.
Aza Raskin
#18. Hey Chris, bet you don't know the Latin name of the red-headed woodpecker.
That was a hard one. Chris had to say Melanerpes erythrocephalus very slowly.
Ellen Raskin
#19. When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.
Aza Raskin
#20. Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.
Aza Raskin
#21. Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation."
"An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.
Ellen Raskin
#22. You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.
Ellen Raskin
#23. I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible."
"Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
Ellen Raskin
#24. You can never let your data dictate design. If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating.
Aza Raskin
#25. The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo
Ellen Raskin
#26. Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.
Jef Raskin
#27. A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.
Jef Raskin
#28. Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.
Ellen Raskin
#29. I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.
Ellen Raskin
#31. The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary civilization of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is still possible.
Paul Raskin
#32. To the user, the interface is the product.
Aza Raskin
#33. 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
#34. Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
Jef Raskin
#35. Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.
Ellen Raskin
#36. 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
#37. What users want is convenience and results.
Jef Raskin
#38. Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.
Ellen Raskin
#39. If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.
Jef Raskin
#40. Your first try will be wrong. Budget and design for it.
Aza Raskin
#41. 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
#42. Jake Wexler, standing or sitting when not lying down
Ellen Raskin
#43. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
Ellen Raskin
#44. Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.
Jef Raskin
#45. An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
Jef Raskin
#46. As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
Jef Raskin
#47. When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.
Jef Raskin
#48. The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
Ellen Raskin
#49. An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.
Jef Raskin
#50. Never use a warning when you mean undo.
Aza Raskin
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