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“We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“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.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'”

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Author:Dave Barry

“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.”

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Author:Russ Feingold

“More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.”

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Author:Clive Thompson

“Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed. He believed in making people comfortable with these machines, which is why he spent so much time thinking about how to design them a certain way, how to make them so user-friendly and interactive, and why he spent so much time studying the Zeitgeist.”

“I'm not massively into computers. I'm a fan of Macs because they're more user friendly, so I'm used to using them.”

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Author:Matthew Kane

“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.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“If the universe is a non-spatial computer, a 'time machine' is a program that allows a user to have the same (ontologically non-spatial) feelings or experiences that occurred or s/he merely feels to have occurred in the past, with an in-built function to have different feelings or experiences than those of the past, and thus creating a possibility to change the past or to rewrite history in a pseudo sense.”

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Author:Kedar Joshi

“Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.”

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Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.”

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Author:Jeff Atwood

“The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.”

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Author:Scott Adams

“The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?”

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Author:Clifford Stoll