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Quotes About Users

Maybe he had endured tragedies and pain, numerous injustices and insults. She didn't give a damn. Join the club; that was the human condition. What mattered wasn't what they did to you, but whether you rose above the level of the users and tormentors—or whether you became one of them and did so with dark glee.
~ Dean Koontz
We did a very deep analysis into the consumer cohort and found that the most frequent users are the most price-sensitive consumers," said Pathmalal. "There isn't going to be an influx of new users... which is a prerequisite for high-growth markets."
~ Unknown
As users flock to Vine, Snapchat and, previously, Instagram, the social platforms are challenged to continue to be the primary provider of these services to the growing army of smartphone users.
~ Keith Teare
People's mouse clicks decide what businesses, services, and content succeed. Users have equal access to tiny businesses with viral ideas and blue-chip companies, allowing these enterprises to compete on their own merits. It's how so many small start-ups have been able to become Internet success stories.
~ Chellie Pingree
We originally started AdNectar to serve brand advertisers, but we've now found that our publishers are greatly benefiting from integrating our system. In addition to a new revenue source and the data our API provides, it turns out users actually prefer branded over generic virtual items.
~ Nir Eyal
We're trying to make our software available to users in as economically efficient a way as possible. That means distributing the software directly to them; taking payment through Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, and other options; and not having a store take 30 percent.
~ Tim Sweeney
Therapy elicits odd reactions because, in a way, it's like pornography. Both involve a kind of nudity. Both have the potential to thrill. And both have millions of users, most of whom keep their use private. Though statisticians have attempted to quantify the number of people in therapy, their results are thought to be skewed because many people who go to therapy choose not to admit it.
~ Lori Gottlieb
Technologies as users interacting with other technologies as prompters, through other in-between technologies: this is another way of describing hyperhistory as the stage of human development
~ Unknown
When technologies are in-between human users and natural prompters, we may qualify them as first-order (Figure 13). Listing first-order technologies is simple. The ones mentioned earlier all qualify. More can easily be added, such as the plough, the wheel, or the umbrella. The axe is probably the first and oldest kind of first-order technology. Nowadays, a wood-splitting axe is still a first-order technology between you, the user, and the wood, the prompter. A saddle is between you and a horse.
~ Unknown
If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
~ Alan Cooper
It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.
~ Ellen Lupton
Users are not designers.
~ Jakob Nielsen
After all, these systems do not do a very good job of gathering trust. They lose files and they crash, oftentimes for no apparent reason. Moreover, they express no shame, no blame. They don't apologize or say they are sorry. Worse, they appear to blame us, the poor unwitting users. Who is "they"? Why does it matter? We are angered, and appropriately so.
~ Donald A. Norman
Berners-Lee's hypertext browsing, users would finally begin to get it about the Internet.
~ Unknown
If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so much customer support, as much as customer complaints.
~ Jakob Nielsen
Hoy las pulgas de la peste negra se han refugiado en las costuras de la Red, cuyos enlaces expanden una imbecilidad planetaria con fiebre y delirios en la mayoría de los usuarios, que no cesan de llenar de vómitos todo el espacio.
~ Unknown
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
~ Richard Stallman
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.
~ Ralph Nader
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.
~ Jakob Nielsen
This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
To build a software that your users understand, capture the language of that users in a class diagram.
~ Unknown
Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.
~ Mike Fitzpatrick
New information technologies are tools—and to have an impact, tools need users, who in turn need goals, direction, and motivation.
~ Moisés Naím
new interfaces are most understandable when they build on what users (and audiences) already know.
~ Unknown