Quotes About Users

But in the meantime there's no reason to starve the users for [syntactic] sugar. It doesn't rot their teeth and it helps them avoid mistakes. — Brendan Eich

Thoen beautifully describes the value of prototyping: Potential users of ideas are more comfortable sharing their honest reactions when it's rough, just as people at P&G are less emotionally invested in their ideas. "The barrier of getting feedback from the consumer side is lower," Thoen says, "and the barrier for accepting feedback from the company's point of view is lower as well.

According to the segmentation, there is a hierarchy of internet users, including inactives, spectators (people who watch and read online content), joiners (people who join and visit social media), collectors (people who add tags to webpages and use RSS feeds), critics (people who post ratings and comments online), and creators (people who create and publish online content).

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it's a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

sending of log messages to all logged users. However, that default configuration is not enough to allow the user to see the log messages. The user must also issue the terminal monitor EXEC command during the login session, which tells IOS that this terminal session would like to receive log messages.

When your number one job is serving the needs of users, and some external force tries to divert your efforts to some other goal, your number one job now changes to removing that external force. It doesn't matter if that external force has more economic or political power than you do. Your job is clear.

To deliver both power and pleasure to users, interaction designers think first conceptually, then in terms of behavior, and last in terms of interface.

Interaction design isn't merely a matter of aesthetic choice; rather, it is based on an understanding of users and cognitive principles.

The biggest drawback, of course, is that you immediately scare away all survivors, and your only remaining users will be apologists. This seriously skews the nature and quality of your feedback, condemning you to a clientele of technoid apologists, which is a relatively small segment. This is one reason why so few personal-computer software-product makers have successfully crossed over into mass markets.

The office has a really fun 'community' feel, kind of like Imgur itself. The things that you see that are on the walls and on our desks came directly from our users.

The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.

There's a building kit for simple games. But more advanced users can program complex things with our script capabilities, which is built on Lua - the same language used in World of Warcraft.

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500 000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

The illusion of reality lies not in the machinery itself, but in in the users' willingness to treat the manifestations of their imaginings as if they were real.

Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

Developers could use the "credit_balance" interface to see how many Credits a user had309 — and Facebook confirmed that developers could use this to identify the biggest Credit holders, and squeeze them for even more money.

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it.

Teamwork is good netiquette. All good users can work together to accomplish goals. NetworkEtiquette.net

Software sucks because users demand it to.

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.