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Quotes About Features

One of the design goals for 'Starcraft 2' was to factor in better features that would make a better viewing experience for e-sports.
~ Michael Morhaime
Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
~ Samantha Power
The reason you see so many volcanoes on Venus is partly due to the fact that there's virtually no erosion there. So on Venus, you're seeing features, some of which are hundreds of millions of years old on the surface. On Earth, we do not see any surface features nearly that old - you only see much more recent features.
~ David Grinspoon
Her features were exquisite perfection, carved by nature with obvious care and never altered by the harshness of life.
~ Lorraine Heath
H]is skin was the color of age and his features the shape of a saint's.
~ Joe Haldeman
Cordelia's face lent itself to windy and rainy weather.
~ John Cowper Powys
Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.
~ Jakob Nielsen
... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.
~ Dennis Ritchie
Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.
~ Adrian Bejan
Designers know too much about their product to be objective judges: the features they have come to love and prefer may not be understood or preferred by the future customers.
~ Donald A. Norman
When companies try to increase sales by matching every feature of their competitors, they end up hurting themselves. After all, when products from two companies match feature by feature, there is no longer any reason for a customer to prefer one over another.
~ Donald A. Norman
market-driven pressures plus an engineering-driven company yield ever-increasing features, complexity, and confusion. But even companies that do intend to search for human needs are thwarted by the severe challenges of the product development process, in particular, the challenges of insufficient time and insufficient money.
~ Donald A. Norman
the impact of competitive forces that drive the introduction of extra features, often to excess: the cause of the disease dubbed "featuritis," whose major symptom is "creeping featurism.
~ Donald A. Norman
I gaped at the cold shock of his beauty, deep-green eyes, features fine as a girl's. It struck from me a sudden, springing dislike. I had not changed so much, nor so well.
~ Madeline Miller
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.
~ James Madison
There was a quality to her that is hard to describe, a fervency, a heat that went to your head. I had expected her to be beautiful, for she walked like a queen of the gods, but it was an odd beauty, not like my mother's or sister's. Each of her features alone was nothing, her nose too sharp, her chin over-strong. Yet together they made a whole like the heart of a flame. You could not look away.
~ Madeline Miller
We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We bein in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
This rubicund youth, with his blunt features, appeared for all the world to have a tomato instead of a head.
~ Marcel Proust
I have to say that I had known people whose intelligence was superior. But the infinite extent, or the egoism, of love causes us to love people whose intellectual and moral features are the least objectively defined for us, we readjust them endlessly according to our desires and our fears, we cannot separate them from ourselves, they are no more than a vast and vague terrain where we externalize our affection.
~ Marcel Proust
looked longingly at the characteristic features he shared with the Guermantes, a race that retains its individuality in a world by which it is not submerged, and in which it remains isolated in its divinely ornithological glory, for it seems to have sprung, in the age of mythology, from the union of a goddess and a bird.
~ Marcel Proust
A faintly puzzled expression, if the term is not too specific, passed a leisurely way over Mr. Whippet's indeterminate features.
~ Margery Allingham
The child had his mother's eyes, his mother's nose, and his mother's mouth. Which leaves his mother with a pretty blank expression.
~ Robert Benchley
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy
~ Anthony Powell
El 10 de abril: <> Bueno, ¿y qué era? Todavía no lo sé. Me atraían sus ojos, su voz, su cintura, su boca, sus manos, su risa, su cansancio, su timidez, su llanto, su franqueza, su pena, su confianza, su ternura, su sueño, su paso, sus suspiros. Pero ninguno de estos rasgos bastaba para atraerme compulsiva, totalmente. Cada atractivo se apoyaba en otro. Ella me atraía como un todo, como una suma insustituible de atractivos, acaso sustituibles.
~ Mario Benedetti