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“Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.”

Form Company Media Reader Cost Activity Foundation Rely Fund Grants Users Listeners Viewers Fees Donation

Author:Robert G. Picard

“I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the methodical path of the Jesuits.... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that all can reach salvation.”

“There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.”

Ifs Giving Ideas Language Born Cases Giving Up Structure Philosopher Defined Acquire Users Linguistics Relativism Linguists

Author:Donald Davidson

“Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want.”

Want Giving Users

Author:Kathy Sierra

“The entire customer or user experience - from raising awareness, to buying a product / taking action, to getting customer support - is going digital.”

Action Support Awareness Products Customers Buying Digital Users Taking Action User Experience Customer Support Raising Awareness

Author:Colleen Jones

“Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.”

Writing Law Technology Opening Corporations Users

Author:Richard Stallman

“If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.”

Ifs Exercise Program Instruments Owners Over It Software Users Entity Unjust Yoke

Author:Richard Stallman

“In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource.”

Trying Attention Audience Economy Resources Ultimate Treats Users

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.”

Values Stuff Products Cameras Photographer Users

Author:Kathy Sierra

“To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second.”

Running Jobs Waiting Hours Response Endure Users Restless Processing Dismay

Author:Fernando J. Corbato

“One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.”

“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.”

Knows Children Difficult Internet Computer Screens Users Free Speech Pornography Computer Screen Internet Users

Author:Russ Feingold

“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.”

People Ends Care Values Accomplish Users

Author:Colin Angle

“An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.”

Doe Values Honest Design Promise Offers Function Communicate Users Manipulate Buyers

Author:Dieter Rams

“All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator!”

Men Life Creator Users

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live.”

Humans Mean Political Freedom Internet Access Discrimination Privacy Users Recognise Affordable Live Free Privacy And Freedom

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“As nice as the Apple iPhone is, it poses a real challenge to its users. Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type.”

Trying Real Challenges Nice Keys Type Apples Users Iphone Typing

Author:Jim Balsillie

“As currently written, the laws require certain manufacturers and users of such chemicals to report any and all environmental releases-either accidental or routine-to air, water, or soil. The Toxics Release Inventory is the main registry of such events, and it is available to the public through the Environmental Protection Agency. It is hardly comprehensive. Toxic emissions reported to the federal government are thought to account for only 5 percent of all chemical releases.”

“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.”

People Mystery Modern Computer Tools Users

Author:Clive Thompson

“I want the state to take away people's guns. But I don't want the state to use methods against gun owners that I deplore when used against naughty children, sexual minorities, drug users, and unsightly drinkers. Since such reprehensible police practices are probably needed to make anti-gun laws effective, my proposal to ban all guns should probably be marked a failure before it is even tried.”

Source: Crime and Punishment: A Radical Solution

“In the desktop world, you could build a successful business where a consumer only came back to you once or maybe twice a year. I don't think you can build that kind of business on mobile. You need higher frequency, or otherwise you fall off the home screen and the user never comes back.”

Thinking World Needs Years Kind Home Fall Successful Higher Screens Consumers Users Mobile Frequency Successful Business Desktop

Author:John Collison

“Each of us plays four roles in relation to the brain. We lead, we inspire, we invent, and we use it. Most people do not actively use their brains. They passively let their feelings and thoughts control their lives. They don't invent new ways to use their brains, either, settling instead for the same routine and repetitive thoughts every day. But if you master all four roles, you create your super brain. When you are the active observer of your feelings and thoughts, you become the user of your brain. Your super brain then serves you, not vice versa.”

People Ifs Way Play Use Feelings Brain Roles Four Inspire Masters Relation Vices Active Settling Routine Users New Ways Observers Vice Versa Repetitive

Author:Deepak Chopra

“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.”

Thinking Feels Book Bigs Library Thanks Users Delighted Kinship Pals

Author:David Sedaris

“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.”

Ifs Long Happens Benefits Tough Apples Devices Users

Author:Kevin Drum

“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 am not on tumblr. I can barely spell tumblr. However, there does seem to be someone on tumblr (who copied my reddit user name) who is apparently trying to impersonate me. I like the idea that people are pretending to be me. I spend most of my time pretending not to be me.”

People Trying Doe I Can Ideas Seems Names My Time Pretending Spells Users Impersonate Reddit

Author:Misha Collins

“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.”

People Real Matter Faces Agree Details Debate Users

Author:Keith Rabois

“I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.”

Thinking Should Hard Use Wish Figures Building Products Judgement Target Users Recipes

Author:Emmett Shear

“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?”

Needs Firsts Answers Users

Author:Emmett Shear

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

Thinking Knows Want Effects Horse Faster Users Carriages

Author:Emmett Shear

“This is true for most new products. The majority of people you're competing with are non-users. They are people who have never used your service before. And what they say is actually the most important. What they say is the thing that blocks you from expanding the size of your market with your features.”

People Important Used Products Majority Size Block Features Users Competing Expanding New Products

Author:Emmett Shear

“That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.”

People Thinking News Negative Features Interviews Pet Users Feedback Disappointing Your Favorite

Author:Emmett Shear

“The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.”

Building Models Enterprise Users

Author:Aaron Levie

“In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.”

Technology Building Models Software Users

Author:Aaron Levie

“They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.”

Way Want Stills Ends Company Technology Security Building Models Sells Traditional Enterprise Users

Author:Aaron Levie

“The problems with conventional parking meters are myriad. Nevertheless, two advanced technologies, multispace parking meters and curb-space occupancy sensors, can make it much easier for users to pay for curb parking, and for cities to adjust prices to meet the demand.”

Two Problem Space Pay Cities Technology Easier Demand Users Conventional Nevertheless Parking Meter Curb Advanced Technology Sensors Parking Meters

Author:Donald Shoup

“The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.”

People Ifs Thinking World Kind Bigs Lying Company Mets Smart Entrepreneur Arrogance Capitalist Users Venture Monopoly Smart People Macintosh Venture Capitalists

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.”

Ifs Needs Hard Easy Bits Instruments Guitar Expensive Friendly Users Steers Guitarist User Friendly

Author:Jimmy Page

“It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.”

War Understanding Duty Drug Judgment Conscience Direct Court Opposition Instruction Users Jury Verdict Jurors Jury Duty Nullification Judge And Jury

Author:John Adams

“User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.”

People Ifs Knows Inspirational Has Beens Whole Company Study Design Breathe Boards Over It Users User Experience Starting A Business Undervalued

Author:Evan Williams

“Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.”

Problem Process Effort Study Design Products Activity Behavior Research Evolve Users Clients Ongoing Responding Discrete Specifications Research Study Continually Learning

Author:Dan Brown

“I believe the mobile OS market will play out very similarly to Windows and Macintosh, with Android in the role of Windows. And so if you want to be in front of the largest number of users, you need to be on Android.”

Ifs Want Needs Believe Play I Believe Numbers Roles Fronts Window Users Mobile Androids Macintosh

Author:Fred Wilson

“The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.”

World Ideas Three Dangerous Type Program Iron Users Patches Programmers Dangerous Things Hardware Wizardry

Author:Rick Cook

“The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.”

Strategy Ads Users Units Elegant User Experience

Author:Fred Wilson

“What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.”

Doe Ends Care Decision Boxes Checks Budgets Makers Software Users User Experience Decision Makers Catering Allocation Could Care Less

Author:Salman Khan

“Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.”

Problem Fighting Social Communication Amount Internet Majors Resources Tools Abuse Significant Users Email Blogging Social Network Spam

Author:Evan Williams

“Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.”

People Art Made Joy Makers Users

Book:William Morris on Art and Socialism

Source: William Morris on Art and Socialism

“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.”

Used Fans Computer Friendly Users Macs User Friendly

Author:Matthew Kane

“My videos are coming from the perspective of someone who bought the device, used it and is giving impressions on the actual usage. Sometimes 2 different behind-the-scenes engienering decisions will yield the same user experience, in which case I won't even mention it.”

Giving Different Sometimes Used Decision Behinds Cases Perspective Scene Impression Video Devices Yield Users Usage Behind The Scenes User Experience

Author:Marques Brownlee

“I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Drug Users

Author:Roman Polanski

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