U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“USA unemployment numbers are fraudulent because they do not count the long term unemployed or the disabled!”
“USA white supremacists do not seem to realize they are probably of mixed race.”
“Usability, fundamentally, is a matter of bringing a bit of human rights into the world of computer-human interaction. It's a way to let our ideals shine through in our software, no matter how mundane the software is. You may think that you're stuck in a boring, drab IT department making mind-numbing inventory software that only five lonely people will ever use. But you have daily opportunities to show respect for humanity even with the most mundane software.”
Source: User Interface Design for Programmers
“Usability is de mate waarin een product door bepaalde gebruikers in een bepaalde gebruikersomgeving kan worden gebruikt om bepaalde doelen effectief, efficiënt en naar tevredenheid te bereiken.”
Source: Handboek Website Usability
“Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You’ll make mistakes along the way, but that’s where growth and forgiveness come in.”
“Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.”
“Usability is not only about ease of use but also about bringing something meaningful, having an objective in common with the user.”
Source: Web Strategy for Everyone
“Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.”
“Usability plays a much wider role in our lives than most people realize. It’s not
just about using a website, a piece of software, or the latest technology. Usability is
about setting up a tent, relighting a furnace to heat a home, trying to figure out a
tax form, or driving an unfamiliar rental car. Usability impacts everyone, every day.
It cuts across cultures, age, gender, and economic class.”
Source: Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics
“Usability rules the web. Simply stated, if the customer can't find a product, then he or she will not buy it.”
Source: Designing Web Usability
“Usage ain't always a matter of ought.”
Source: Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
“Usage is like oxygen for ideas.”
“Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.”
“Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.”
“Usage is the best language teacher.”
“Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.”
“Usage of plastic in packing medicines will pack the earth medically unfit for any life”
“Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.”
“USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Usah dicari, dia bakal kembali”
“Usaha dan berupaya sekuat raya, dalam keadaan apapun, hingga Tuhan melihat kesungguhan itu dan mengulurkan tangan-Nya ... Ikhlas terhadap takdir yang telah digariskan Tuhan, setelah usaha yang maksimal. Harapan besar yang kandas, belum tentu sungguh-sungguh kandas. Tuhan tak akan mengandaskan impian hambanya begitu saja. Dia tak akan menaruh kita dalam kesulitan yang tak terperi tanpa menukarnya dengan kemuliaan pada masa mendatang. (307)”
Source: Bulan Terbelah di Langit Amerika
“Usain Bolt won the gold for the men's 100- and 200-meter dashes for the second Olympics in a row. You know, he has been running since he was in elementary school - kind of like Mitt Romney.”
“Usama bin Laden feels like Iraq is a part of this War on Terror. He has made it clear that he would like for us to leave before Iraq can defend itself or govern itself and sustain itself, so that he could have a safe haven from which to launch further attacks, a safe haven from which to topple modern governments, a safe haven from which to, you know, be able to get a hold of oil resources.”
“Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader...Bin laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains.”
Source: Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive?
“Usamljenost traži saputnika i ne pita ko je on. Ko to ne zna, taj nikad nije bio usamljen, samo sam.”
Source: The Night in Lisbon
“Usamos máscaras para esconder aquilo que nos magoa.”
Source: O Regresso de Larry Miller
“Usancı, bezginliği bir an unutturan bir şey varsa, yaşama sokuverdiğimiz umuttur. yaşama katabildiğimiz, katmayı becerebildiğimiz umuttur...
Umut? Umut diye bir şey uyduruvermekle ayak üstü, pek bir şey söylenmiş oluyor mu?”
Source: Altı Ay Bir Güz
“Usar a linguagem como esses contestadores querem que a usemos seria simplesmente desastroso.”
Source: Cristianismo Puro e Simples
“Usar a mente para o que venha a ser útil, saber que erros todos cometem, e a gente por nossa vez tem de fazer o máximo para não errar, errar e reconhecer o erro, consertar para não errar novamente.”
“Usar las palabras adecuadas y de la forma correcta hará mucho más por una relación de pareja que cientos de horas dedicadas a comprar regalos u obsequios para enmendar frases dichas de mala manera o con contenido erróneo.”
Source: 111 Sugerencias para novios y recién casados
“USC is the National Champion like Al Gore is the President of the United States.”
“USDA regulations spell out precisely what sort of facility and system is permissible, but they don’t set thresholds for food-borne pathogens. (That would require the USDA to recall meat from packers who failed to meet the standards, something the USDA, incredibly, lacks the authority to do.)”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."”
“Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.”
Source: Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
“Use # meditation as a tool to get quiet.”
“Use a Condom, Not a Knife”
“Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.”
“Use a mirror in difficult times. You will see both cause and resolution.”
“Use a pen to write the story but use your heart to tell the tale.”
“Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.”
“Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.”
“Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.”
“Use a true story jam-packed with credibility points to sidestep objections.”
Source: The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone
“Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing.”
“Use active trading, bottom up and constrained strategies”
Source: Change and Power
“Use affirmations as statements of becoming, not statements of being.”
Source: Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50
“Use ai as assistant, not as ghostwriter.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“Use AI to empower life,
don't abuse AI to ruin life.
AI must orbit humanity,
not turn humanity into a lie.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Use AI to expand the human soul, not substitute the soul with slop.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Use all of your senses.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder