Top 100 User Quotes
#1. All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. A company can begin to determine its product's habit-forming potential by plotting two factors: frequency (how often the behavior occurs) and perceived utility (how useful and rewarding the behavior is in the user's mind over alternative solutions).
Nir Eyal
#3. To initiate (user) action, doing must be easier than thinking.
Nir Eyal
#4. Cell phones have gotten so small, you can't tell who's a cell phone user and who's a schizophrenic.
Bob Newhart
#5. In New Guinea, as in other hot spots of endangerment, indigenous languages are a user's guide to ecosystems that are increasingly fragile and - in the face of climate change - increasingly irreplaceable.
Anonymous
#7. Being user friendly doesn't mean you're going to be loved.
Laura Wiess
#8. Man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.
Ellen Sturgis Hooper
#9. It's really easy to insist that people read the manual. It's really easy to blame the user/student/prospect/customer for not trying hard, for being too stupid to get it, or for not caring enough to pay attention.
Seth Godin
#10. Look at every 'revolutionary' brand or category killer, it had an app, or a feature, or a functionality, or a user experience nobody else at that point could offer. I refer to this as 'the Killer App' principle.
David Brier
#11. Our mission is to revive the gaming industry by increasing our user base,
Satoru Iwata
#12. I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.
Jeff Bezos
#13. We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences and that it's possible to have a successful commercial entity and a wider free software community living and working in harmony.
Matt Mullenweg
#14. I actually cut out some frames and kind of gave it a little grainier look so it looks a lot more like the first one. I think that is really important. Especially from user-generated content, people don't want overproduced-looking videos.
Judson Laipply
#15. 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.
#16. We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy.
Mitchell Baker
#17. Things that we need to learn are the importance of establishing brand, establishing market presence. Technology-wise, it's things like ease of use, user interfaces; all of these things that tend to be less important in our other business segments are important things for us in the consumer market.
Charles Giancarlo
#18. must be able to understand the business aspects and requirements for the end user areas their applications support.
Derek C. Ashmore
#19. Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.
Keith Teare
#20. Always drink at least 8 ounces of water or a sugar-free decaffeinated beverage with every meal or snack. If you are a heavy caffeine user, gradually reduce caffeine intake to zero whenever possible.
Barry Sears
#21. The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world conventions, making information appear in a natural and logical order.
Jakob Nielsen
#22. Just imagine, how much easier our lives would be if we were born with a 'user guide or owner's manual' which could tell us what to eat and how to live healthy.
Erika M. Szabo
#23. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.
Paul Graham
#24. It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.
Steve Jobs
#25. We are extremely attractive to page companies, because we significantly increase their user base.
David Rose
#26. 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
#27. Being certified as a user means you have basic knowledge and can turn things on and off;
Chris Hadfield
#28. Tribalism isn't a bad thing. If you're a Facebook user, or Twitter user or Foursquare user or LinkedIn user, those are all tribes ... and they may even have sub-tribes. It's not pejorative, it's declarative.
Peter Guber
#29. We see ourselves as the world's digital library. That can be a lot more than books. We do want to expand to other types of content: sheet music, magazines, user-generated content.
Trip Adler
#30. All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.
Jon Postel
#31. The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
Dave Barry
#32. Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.
Linus Torvalds
#33. Reader was by far the most popular feed reader out there, and its user base had been in a steep decline for two years before Google decided to shut it down.
Annalee Newitz
#34. I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.
Don Bluth
#35. The user of the electric light
or a hammer, or a language, or a book
is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.
Marshall McLuhan
#36. From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Pharrell Williams
#37. Paper and digital prototypes, PowerPoint mockups, personas, filmed user testimonials, and 3D printed objects can be used to build excitement, communicate vision, and share understanding.
Alden Globe
#38. The entire customer or user experience-from raising awareness, to buying a product / taking action, to getting customer support-is going digital.
Colleen Jones
#39. I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
Bruce Schneier
#40. Non-fiction about personal subjects is going to attract more user comments than a foreign correspondent writing from Syria - unfortunately.
Meghan Daum
#41. Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
Steve Jobs
#42. the prices seem to reflect how far Staples believes the user lives from a competitor's store. Staples confirmed that it varies prices by a number of factors but declined to be specific.
Julia Angwin
#43. We lacked something that is the key to a successful startup, and it was bigger than sound quality. It was emotional investment. If you don't love what you're building, if you're not an avid user yourself, then you will most likely fail even if you're doing everything else right.
Biz Stone
#44. 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
#46. If two programs respond in the same way to every possible action by the user, then they render the same environment; if they would respond perceptibly differently to even one possible action, they render different environments.
David Deutsch
#47. The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.
Peter Drucker
#48. Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?
Will Self
#49. Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to stumble across pornography.
Russ Feingold
#50. Learn and follow the different OS design guidelines for Tab Menus. Clearly indicate where the user is by visually differentiating the selected tab from the others.
Theresa Neil
#51. The digital keys in a user's wallet are completely independent of the bitcoin protocol and can be generated and managed by the user's wallet software without reference to the blockchain or access to the Internet.
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
#52. The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.
Lionel Suggs
#53. Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't think of the user as making errors; think of the actions as approximations of what is desired.
Donald A. Norman
#54. Wozniak would be the gentle wizard coming up with a neat invention that he would have been happy just to give away, and Jobs would figure out how to make it user-friendly, put it together in a package, market it, and make a few bucks.
Walter Isaacson
#55. Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not
Dennis Peron
#56. Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user,
William Morris
#57. When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they checked my book out of the library, I'm delighted. I've always been a big library user, and feel a kinship with others who do the same thing.
David Sedaris
#58. the book of 944 design guidelines for text-based user interfaces of bygone days that Smith and Mosier of Mitre Corporation developed for the U.S. Air Force (Mosier & Smith, 1986; Smith & Mosier, 1986).
Rex Hartson
#59. Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.
Weili Dai
#60. According to the British Journal of Psychiatry, marijuana can cause panic attacks. I don't know ... The only time I have ever seen a marijuana user look panicky is when they are out of marijuana.
Jay Leno
#61. I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.
Various
#62. bringing together the professionals, such as experience designers, user experience researchers, front-end developers and prototypers, under a single umbrella.
Anonymous
#63. As a Facebook user, do I have control of the data Facebook keeps about me? Concretely: can I examine and modify that data using tools of my choosing which are built for my needs?
Eric S. Raymond
#64. Who would you talk to? That is the first question for almost any startup that you need to answer. Who is my user and where am I going to find them?
Emmett Shear
#66. Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.
Thiruman Archunan
#67. If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.
Rose Macaulay
#68. 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
#69. The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.
Mitch Kapor
#70. You know it wrong honey.
I am friendly.
I am not user-friendly.
Arzum Uzun
#71. You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.
Peter Drucker
#72. Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Literally don't think about them. Every time you're in a meeting and you're tempted to talk about a competitor, replace that thought with one about user feedback or surveys. Just think about the customer.
Mike McCue
#73. You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.
Brenda Laurel
#74. When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
Walter Darby Bannard
#75. The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.
Arianna Huffington
#76. When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.
Howard Rheingold
#77. As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH Eiffel USER conference, to celebrate.
Bertrand Meyer
#78. I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don't indulge, you don't live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
Grace Jones
#79. Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.
Eric Schmidt
#80. Every time you make the user make a decision they don't care about, you have failed as a designer.
Aza Raskin
#81. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it.
Bill Bryson
#82. If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.
Jesse James Garrett
#83. Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.
Keith Rabois
#84. Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers.
Markus Persson
#85. 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
#86. Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#87. The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.
Bruce Schneier
#88. The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
#89. Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#90. The system should treat all user input as sacred.
Jef Raskin
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Stephan Jones
#92. What she wanted was right there, between them, pressed against her stomach - so big and accessible and user-friendly - neatly covered and ready to go.
Suzanne Brockmann
#93. We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
Douglas Coupland
#94. Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free.
Niklas Zennstrom
#95. This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.
Ram Dass
#96. Half the weapons looked like they were more of a danger to the user than the victim and the other half looked like they were meant for decapitation. She was only fifteen. She couldn't have someone's death on her hands.
L. Taylor
#97. The user might have grounds for complaint if the program fails to recognise that he has given a stupid value, in fact a number of cases are currently being fought in the United States courts where a program has failed to recognise invalid data, produced garbage and caused a lot of damage.
Rob Miles
#98. In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent, why, and under what authority there's been censorship. There's no way of appealing. There's no due process.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#99. That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
Daniel Clowes
#100. And, by the way, thank you for drugging me with Ketamine in Nigeria. He now thinks I'm a recreational drug user." "You're . . . welcome?
Penny Reid
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