Users Quotes

The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.

Content is often the reason users come to your site.

As nice as the Apple iPhone is, it poses a real challenge to its users. Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type.

Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications.

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

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

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.

Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.

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

I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?

The least flexible component of any system is the user.

The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.

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

Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal performances, etc., keep using, abusers keep abusing!!!

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.

The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road profile with bland, middle of the road pictures seems like a bad strategy to me.

Your customer is not your user

Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.

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

My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS.

If I learned one thing working at Facebook: If users are trying to use your app in a certain way, get out of their way and let them.

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

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

The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.

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

Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.

They never differentiate between drug users and drug addicts... I've done most drugs there are socially, I never had a problem.

The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.

Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.

On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.

Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second.

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

There is no such thing as "the user". Users... come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have widely varying information needs.

What is the user problem that once we solve users can't live without?

We start to try to live in tomorrow and the future, and start to think about what we build today as a stepping stone to graduate users.

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

Multi-touch-sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.

Nobody can deny that Apple is fashionable, and most iPhone users buy the newest so they can be fashionable. To do this right, Apple needs a new phone every quarter.