Users Quotes

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities. — Amiri Baraka

The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at identifying what a diversity of users perceive as problems. — David Livermore

Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users. — Cynthia Lummis

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently. — Niklas Zennstrom

I look at two things while angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users. — Gary Vaynerchuk

What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used. — Marissa Mayer

If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing. — Mitch Kapor

In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online. — Niklas Zennstrom

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

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users. — Satya Nadella

What users want is convenience and results. — Jef Raskin

In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology ... and you can build software then, around the user. — Aaron Levie

The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome. — Kathy Sierra

The users space is lived - not represented or conceived. — Henri Lefebvre

If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person. — Alan Cooper

contribution of users is growing steadily larger as a result of continuing advances in computer and communications capabilities. — Eric Von Hippel

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature. — E. Haldeman-Julius

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users. — Alberto Manguel

We certainly hope that Facebook allows users to connect with their friends on Path and with any other partner applications in the future. — Dave Morin

new interfaces are most understandable when they build on what users (and audiences) already know. — Nathan Shedroff

Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority. — Larry Page

To build a software that your users understand, capture the language of that users in a class diagram. — Michael Jesse Chonoles

We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users. — Paul Maritz

African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today. — Michelle Alexander

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project. — Donald Norman

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales. — Cory Doctorow

The best way to improve perspective taking is to see users up close. — David Livermore

Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users. — Douglas Crockford

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users. — Jeff Atwood

Instead of relying on expensive marketing, habit-forming companies link their services to the users' daily routines and emotions. — Nir Eyal

We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want. — Arash Ferdowsi

Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? — Clifford Stoll

Teamwork is good netiquette. All good users can work together to accomplish goals. — David Chiles

We have only scratched the surface of what would be possible if end users could freely program their own applications, — Bonnie A. Nardi

Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private. — Conan O'Brien

Casual drug users should be taken out and shot. — Daryl Gates

The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time. — Jakob Nielsen

The price for using dark magic is death, so that goes a long way toward deterring users. — Devon Monk

Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites. — Maajid Nawaz

Madefire is igniting a new era by creating a modern, dynamic reading experience and bringing that to the millions of iPad users around the world. — Dave Gibbons

Lyft is enabling an exciting new model of freedom and personal mobility, as evidenced by its millions of satisfied users. — William Clay Ford Jr.

The better and longer way is to describe the experience I want the users to have. That means describing the users' world and how my design fits in. — Giles Colborne

The best leaders ... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols. — Tom Peters

With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do. — Kevin Rose

I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time. — Jason Calacanis

Code is never neutral, and interfaces can signal all kinds of things to users. — Sarah Jeong

Your users will not care how effectively your resources are utilized as long as they are not affected by their shortage. When — Slawek Ligus

I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users. — Mike Krieger

Content is often the reason users come to your site. — Jesse James Garrett

'Instagram' reached 13 million users in just 13 months. — Kevin Systrom

Molech swung and kicked and slaughtered Mexican food with every mighty blow, while a quarter billion extremely confused Blink users watched. And — David Wong

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. — Niklaus Wirth

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

The design's intuitiveness is factorized based on the stored procedures: the more intuitive the design is, the more the users can remember and recall. — Suyog Ketkar

Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping. — Maelle Gavet

Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments. — Meg Whitman

Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users. — Marshall McLuhan

People are users. It's a universal truth. Use them, or they'll use you. — Victoria Schwab

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop. — Jakob Nielsen

Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons - you really can choose to stop. — Nigel Warburton

Brands frantically tried to compete for users' fragmented attention, spraying content on every platform in a 24/7 race to stay relevant. — Shawn Amos

In May of 2010, I joined Kevin Systrom, my co-founder, and we created 'Instagram', a mobile social network that today has over 15 million users. — Mike Krieger

Users are innocent for they can not really make sure if their information is safe or not. — Ma Huateng

When key users told us something wasn't working, we fixed it - immediately. — Stewart Butterfield

The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China. — Li Yuanchao

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work. — Clive Thompson

I recall the eerie pleasure of getting a copy of the U-2 Users' Manual. — George Smoot

Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all. — Michael P. Naughton

If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine. — Sundar Pichai

Never present a power-user option in such a way that normal users must learn all about it in order to know they don't need to use it. — Bruce Tognazzini

I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources. — Barack Obama

Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare. — Rick Scott

IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators. — Paul Thurrott

Using theory can help to justify actions and explain practice to service users, carers and society in general. — Siobhan Maclean

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. — Bill Gates

Hulu is about the shows, not the networks. The shows are the brands that users care about. — Jason Kilar

Any time you build a network, you have to help users find their friends. — Dave Morin

Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving. — Elaine MacDonald

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time. — Edward Felten

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users. — Patricia Hewitt

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman. — Peter Fenton

It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it. — Sam Altman

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil. — Bill Gates

We are trained to teach users but are not trained to help them learn. — Suyog Ketkar

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that. — Sundar Pichai

My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders. — David Naylor

The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload. — James Garner

Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant. — Rands

The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell. — Janusz Kaminski

Periodization isn't magic--you can't out-periodize your genetics, drug users, or stupidity. — Craig Cecil

We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability. — Michel Sidibe

Get a version 1.0 out there as soon as you can. Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses. — Paul Graham

Your customer is not your user — Clara Shih

You should always look for opportunities to test innovations on a subset of users if you can. — Jeff Jordan

Make your product so simple that users already know how to use it, and you've got a winner. — Nir Eyal

The war on drugs makes it almost impossible for drug users to get milder forms of their drug - and it pushes them inexorably toward harder drugs. — Johann Hari

New information technologies are tools - and to have an impact, tools need users, who in turn need goals, direction, and motivation. — Moises Naim

It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy. — Hans Vestberg

Sure, but competition is good for the user. — Wietse Venema

Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it. — Satya Nadella