Quotes About Experience

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

I was a very good dribbler as a young player, but now that I've got more experience, there are some useless things that I don't do anymore.

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?

Writing books can be very individual - one might strike you as helpful that someone else found useless, or that you might not have appreciated at some other time in your life.

I didn't know, at 22, that regret is useless. If I could go back and change something - give myself some big break, pass along some secret information, reassure myself that most things would, in fact, work out - I don't think I would.

Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.

You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.

I feel that it's lovely when, as a user, you're not aware of the complexity.

Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successful.

The Xbox is how the computer will be built in the next 20 years. More semiconductor capacity will go to the user experience.

You can see that tight integration, as Facebook and Twitter now have with iOS, makes the overall user experience better for both the partner and for Apple.

Generally, our approach with products at Google is to first develop the right user base and then to figure out what's the right experience for the ads.

The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent.

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.

Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.

Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience.

I think there are a lot more people that don't use Pinterest in the world than do use it, so for most people, that first experience is really, really important. I think feeling really close and in touch with that first user experience is pretty basic to making it better every day.

As Chief Product Officer, I lead our product team to create simple, intuitive user experiences.

Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.

Mobile forced us to rethink the user experience and do something people would be able to carry out on in a couple of seconds on the mobile phone. By stripping out all the work the user used to do and putting that on the company, we were able to create a much better user experience.

We want to make sure every user is happy.