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“User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world.”

People World Done Users

Author:Michael Eisner

“Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.”

Firsts Media Expression Degrees Tools Including Details Mediums Devices Users Representation Simulate

Author:Alan Kay

“You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.”

Please Users

Author:Brenda Laurel

“For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Ends Past Night Drug Chickens Users Seventeen Kentucky Fried Chicken Lager

Author:Ben Elton

“This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.”

Ifs Thinking Use Disease Idiot Confused Mentality Users Gnome Functionality

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I began to study marijuana in 1967... I had not yet learned that there is something very special about illicit drugs. If they don't always make the drug user behave irrationally, they certainly cause many non-users to behave that way.”

Ifs Way Causes Study Special Drug Behave Marijuana Users

Author:Lester Grinspoon

“I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.”

People Ifs Way Want Break Share Program Agree Refuse Golden Conquer Divides Software Users Solidarity Golden Rule Sellers

Book:Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

“Tools may limit the user, but the utility of tools is limited by the skill of the user.”

May Skills Limits Tools Users Utility

Author:Leonard J. V. Compagno

“Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.”

Values Cost Offers Features Minorities Users

Book:JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

Source: JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

“I am the unhappiest WordPress user in the world, I think it sucks.”

Thinking World Users Wordpress

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.”

Dream Seems Special Good Man Users Precise

Book:the elements of style

Source: the elements of style

“You take a picture of yourself in some exceptional situation - skydiving or whatever. People always post those photos because it works - you're saying something about yourself that begs a conversation and that's what the users are there for.”

People Situation Conversation Posts About Yourself Users Exceptional Skydiving Pictures Of Yourself

Author:Christian Rudder

“Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road profile with bland, middle of the road pictures seems like a bad strategy to me.”

Seems Middle Strategy Users Site Profile Bland Middle Of The Road

Author:Christian Rudder

“I'm a big believer in online communities and in user-generated content.”

Bigs Community Believer Online Users

Author:Michael Dell

“A new report claims that William Shakespeare was a marijuana user and may have been high when he wrote some of his plays. Which explains that one line: 'To be, or not to be . . . Wait, what was the question?'”

May Has Beens Play Waiting Lines Claims Reports Marijuana Users One Line Be Or Not To Be

Author:Jimmy Fallon

Ifs Two Use Easy Difficult Materials Products Offers Access Factors Host Users Compelling Popularity Site Flocks

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“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.”

Way Bigs Term Technology Fashion Design Users Interfaces User Interface

Author:Weili Dai

“When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world.”

People World Grows Millions Five Saws Students College Thousand Billions Evolve Employee Users College Students

Author:Ruchi Sanghvi

“Users want relevant content as advertising. As a result, the distinction between advertising and content is going away. All that matters to a user is relevancy.”

Want Matter Results Advertising Distinction Going Away Relevant Users

Author:Shailesh Rao

“Users who continually find value in a product are more likely to tell their friends about it.”

Values Products Users

Author:Nir Eyal

“The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.”

Pain Goal Company Products Source Habit Creating Ultimate Solve Relief Association Users Ultimate Goal

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“Instead of relying on expensive marketing, habit-forming companies link their services to the users' daily routines and emotions.”

Emotion Company Habit Marketing Expensive Links Users Daily Routines

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.”

Company Products Habit Advantage Customers Users Susceptible Competitive Advantage

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“To initiate (user) action, doing must be easier than thinking.”

Thinking Action Easier Users Initiate

Author:Nir Eyal

“Products with higher user engagement have the potential to grow faster than their rivals.”

Grows Products Higher Faster Engagement Users Rivals

Author:Nir Eyal

“These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.”

Children Used Tales These Days Scare Users Naughty Wales Singularity

Book:The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations

Source: The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations

“UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others.”

Picks Friendly Users Operating Systems Unix User Friendly

Author:David Wolfe

“UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.”

Thinking Way Years Kind Philosophy Home Used Evil Behinds Design Grew Normal Window Clean Strive Core Users Strife Microsoft Programmers Operating Systems Unix

Author:Linus Torvalds

“My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider.”

Users Site Spiders Thumbs Seo

Author:David Naylor

“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.”

Way Moments Remember Stuff Knowing Clear Saws Seeing Minutes Ten Computer Obvious Intellect Someday Users Apocalyptic Interfaces User Interface

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.”

Ifs Knows Use Jobs Accepting Computer Tools Users

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.”

Ifs Feels Different Feelings Past Universe Possibility Computer Creating Built Program Machines Function Users Pseudo Time Machine Spatial Different Feelings

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.”

Matter Information Collections Users

Author:C. West Churchman

“With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.”

Trying Has Beens Share Type Gains Window Devices Users Frustrated Documents Microsoft Ipads

Author:Bill Gates

“Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.”

Children Has Beens Used Hours Missing Drug Users Could Have Been Prohibition Sellers Investigating Drug Prohibition Restitution

Author:Randy Barnett

“The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.”

Faces Challenges Information Internet Users Overload Information Overload Internet Users

Author:James Garner

“Cell phones have gotten so small, you can't tell who's a cell phone user and who's a schizophrenic.”

Phones Cells Users Cell Phone Schizophrenic

Author:Bob Newhart

“The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.”

Made Language Users Speakers

Author:Wilson Follett

“Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.”

People Jobs Ability Focus Revolutionary Users Amazing Things Interfaces User Interface

Author:Bill Gates

“I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Ends Healthy Competition Users Iphone Blackberries Androids Healthy Competition

Author:Jack Levin

“Start by putting yourself in your users' shoes. Why are they coming to your site? If you look at most Web sites, you'd presume that the answer is "User is extremely bored and wishes to stare at a blank screen for several minutes while a flashing icon loads, then stare at the flashing icon for a few more minutes."”

Ifs Looks Wish Answers Minutes Shoes Screens Bored Staring Users Load Blank Site Icons

Author:Philip Greenspun

“With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.”

Knows World May Doe Problem Products Majors Regard Lays Familiar Exception Software Usual Users Bugs Incidents Competent Programmers

Author:David Parnas

“Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.”

Today Lasts Users

Author:Conan O'Brien

“When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.”

“We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.”

Bases Code Users Gnome Desktop

Author:Miguel de Icaza

“A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the passive, who writes, 'Delay should not be allowed to take place' instead of 'Hurry'? The user of the passive verb doesn't want a universe in which responsible agents do their acts. You see? Bad language ultimately is IMMORAL.”

Want Should Writing Mind Persons Use Universe Language Brain Happenings Responsible Agents Users Passive Delay Immoral Verbs Bad Language

Author:Richard Mitchell

“Credit cards have been extremely profitable to banks. They're profitable not from the fees they collect from the retailers that use the credit cards, that pays the bills, but the real profits come from the interest payments and the charges to users that are unexpected.”

Has Beens Real Use Interest Pay Bills Profit Credit Cards Unexpected Users Profitable Payment Credit Card Fees Retailers

Author:Richard Thaler

“Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. Also, efforts to curtail the supply of firearms inflict collateral damage on freedom and privacy interests that have long been considered central to American public life.”

Way Long Law Interest Effort Gun Difficulty Intense Damage Encounters Privacy Users Regulation Gun Control Public Life Free Society Scrutiny Firearms Collateral Collateral Damage

Author:Daniel D. Polsby

“To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.”

Self Use Easy Pay Attention Design Behavior Claims Pay Attention Users Speculation Unreliable Interfaces

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.”

Action Pain Pleasure Habit Degrees Perceive Users Avoiding Utility Avoiding Pain

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

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