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I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface. -- Jeff Bezos
I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces. -- Daniel J. Bernstein
I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions. -- Francois-Henri Pinault
Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface. -- Weili Dai
The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant. -- Bill Gates
Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things. -- Bill Gates
In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary. -- Linus Torvalds
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. -- Andy Hertzfeld
Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap. -- Steve Jobs
You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work. -- Nicholas Negroponte
A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would. -- Joel Spolsky
A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. -- Ted Nelson
The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old. -- Thorsten Heins
A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time. -- Jakob Nielsen
Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces. -- Erik Naggum
When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology, -- Howard Rheingold
Radically simplify the user interface, reinvent it, enough face lifts! You can put as much lipstick on a chicken as you want, it's never going to look good! -- Philippe Kahn
It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly. -- Douglas Coupland
Computing has gone from something tiny and specialized to something that affects every walk of life. It doesn't make sense anymore to think of it as just one discipline. I expect to see separate departments of user interface, for example, to start emerging at universities. -- Nathan Myhrvold
It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear. -- Steve Jobs
User interface is customer service for the computer. -- Julie Larson-Green
All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it. -- Jon Postel
When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology. -- Howard Rheingold
I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple! -- Mitchell Baker
Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface. -- Robert Patterson
I'd like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it. -- Steve Jobs
Things that we need to learn are the importance of establishing brand, establishing market presence. Technology-wise, it's things like ease of use, user interfaces; all of these things that tend to be less important in our other business segments are important things for us in the consumer market. -- Charles Giancarlo
We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers. -- Larry Ellison
I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site's user interface. But the vast majority of software is actually pretty generic. -- Brian Behlendorf
Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface. -- Astro Teller
The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users. -- Douglas Rushkoff
To the user, the interface is the product. -- Aza Raskin
When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex. -- Randall Munroe
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

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