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I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly. -- Larry Page
Software sucks because users demand it to. -- Nathan Myhrvold
To the user, the interface is the product. -- Aza Raskin
DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience. -- Bill Gates
Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
...pay attention to what users do, not what they say. -- Jakob Nielsen
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'. -- Edward Tufte
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. -- Raymond Loewy
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams
Start out by making 100 users really happy, rather than a lot more users only a little happy. -- Paul Buchheit
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols. -- Tom Peters
Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare. -- Rick Scott
If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful. -- Alan Cooper
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. -- Stephen Colbert
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is. -- Linus Torvalds
Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine. -- Sergey Brin
Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience. -- Marissa Mayer
The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook and other social networks can allow that to happen. -- Yuri Milner
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
Babelgum has no ties to individual content owners and distributors, and as a result our editorial strategy is primarily 'user-centric.' That strategy ensures the platform satisfies the needs of a potentially infinite number of niche audiences around the world. -- Silvio Scaglia
The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user. -- Seth Godin
Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most amazing technology in the world, but if it's not put in a form that's useful and desirable, you won't be successful. -- Robert Brunner
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. -- Milton Friedman
Users are not designers. -- Jakob Nielsen
Designed to â??Effectively Frustrate': Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users. -- Tarleton Gillespie
Users who continually find value in a product are more likely to tell their friends about it. -- Nir Eyal
Users are innocent for they can not really make sure if their information is safe or not. -- Ma Huateng
Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done. -- Jef Raskin
Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse. -- Emmett Shear
There is no such thing as "the user". Users... come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have widely varying information needs... -- Hans H Wellisch
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. -- Shailesh Rao
Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know. -- Jakob Nielsen
By allowing multiple partners to contribute, an open platform can nurture an entire ecosystem of developers and apps. Good products integrate and become great products. Users get a one-stop solution for social needs. -- Ryan Holmes
Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug. -- William Randolph Hearst
Users of clichÃ©s frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter. -- Patrick Cockburn
There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates. -- Glenn Turner
Users are trying to discover apps; we are trying to improve the app discovery process, and developers are trying to reach users. If you step back, it's a problem we solved with search and ads in search. -- Sundar Pichai
We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap, that good things will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that's what we're seeing. -- Jason Kilar
Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
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
All this is a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it helps people establish what they value; they understand the sort of ideas they identify with. The curse is that they aren't challenged in their views. The Internet becomes an echo chamber. Users don't see the counterarguments. -- Edward Snowden
Casual drug users should be taken out and shot. -- Daryl Gates
Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments. -- Meg Whitman
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. -- Tim Berners-Lee
We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet. -- Vinton Cerf
The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users. -- Hilary Rosen
The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users. -- Annie Lennox
If you step back and take a holistic look, I think any reasonable person would say Android is innovating at a pretty fast pace and getting it to users. -- Sundar Pichai
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not. -- Douglas Rushkoff
I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying. -- Elliott Smith
YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool. -- Victor Koo
On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week. -- Mark Zuckerberg
You're going to have 100s of millions of users on Chrome, spanning mobile, tablets, and desktops. That is one unfragmented base. That uniformity is probably better than most of the issues across browsers. -- Sundar Pichai
Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware. -- Richard Stallman
There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. -- Mitch Lasky
We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. We're getting 80,000 new users each day. And more than half a million people are connected via Skype at any given moment. -- Niklas Zennstrom
If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen. -- Geoff Mulgan
Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations. -- Douglas Rushkoff
We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why. -- Larry Page
In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. -- Niklas Zennstrom
I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms. -- Steve Wozniak
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users. -- Joe Green
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. -- Chris DeWolfe
Designers are not users. -- Jakob Nielsen
What users want is convenience and results. -- Jef Raskin
Cameraphones will be rejected by corporate users. -- Mike Lazaridis
The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload. -- James Garner
Content is often the reason users come to your site. -- Jesse James Garrett
The users space is lived - not represented or conceived. -- Henri Lefebvre
Habit-forming products alleviate users' pain by relieving a pronounced itch. -- Nir Eyal
Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users' -- Edward Tufte
Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving. -- Elaine MacDonald
User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project. -- Donald A. Norman
Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil. -- Bill Gates
In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online. -- Niklas Zennstrom
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users. -- Steve Ballmer
We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users. -- Jeff Atwood
Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. -- Kathy Sierra
Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? -- Clifford Stoll
Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users. -- Marshall McLuhan
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? -- Clifford Stoll
If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. -- Linus Torvalds
The best way to improve perspective taking is to see users up close. -- David Livermore
Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites. -- Maajid Nawaz
Mobile Messaging is rapidly becoming the primary way users engage socially on mobile. -- Keith Teare
What is the user problem that once we solve users can't live without? -- Hosain Rahman
I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized. -- Roman Polanski
I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time. -- Jason Calacanis
When key users told us something wasn't working, we fixed it - immediately. -- Stewart Butterfield
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? -- Clifford Stoll
Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion. -- Vinton Cerf
Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it. -- Satya Nadella
Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death. -- Harry J. Anslinger
Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop. -- Jakob Nielsen
Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion. -- Vinton Cerf
Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time. -- Edward Felten
Teamwork is good netiquette. All good users can work together to accomplish goals. NetworkEtiquette.net -- David Chiles
Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant. -- Rands
Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do. -- Elinor Ostrom
Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications. -- John W. Thompson
Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users. -- Douglas Crockford
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users. -- Alberto Manguel
Broadening and deepening the relationship with our users and advertisers have always been our strategic priority. -- Victor Koo
Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging. -- Eric S. Raymond
Most computer users don't think about backing up their software until the day they lose it -- Don Rittner
Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back. -- George Takei
The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China. -- Li Yuanchao
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. -- Bill Gates
Yahoo! is committed to building the richest set of premium and personalized content experiences for our users. -- Ross Levinsohn
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. -- Niklaus Wirth
Hulu is about the shows, not the networks. The shows are the brands that users care about. -- Jason Kilar
Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error. -- Robert Burchfield
The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome. -- Kathy Sierra
The price for using dark magic is death, so that goes a long way toward deterring users. -- Devon Monk
I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with. -- Sean Parker

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