46 Interface Quotes for You to Enjoy

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive. Jaron Lanier

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A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. Ben Shneiderman

Art Words Worth Picture Thousand Thousand Words Picture Is Worth Pictures Interface

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

Facebook Better Employees Cloud Our Collaboration Fusion Enterprise Network Simplified Footprint New Makes Enabling Continue Integrated Expand Familiar Oracle While Social Customers Interface Your User Teamwork Among Applications

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

Important Programs Secondary Correctly Cases Seems Part Most Important Part Commercial The Most Important Whether Interface User Many Works Company Program

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

Took Later Mac Introduction Invented Had Know Nap Well Years Decade Eight Which Then Interface User Company Apple

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

People Amazing Focus Few Market Jobs Ability Count Steve Steve Jobs Amazing Things Get Revolutionary Few Things Interface User Who Right Things

Among many other things, a smartphone functions as a handheld digital sensor for the physical world. In other words, we don't necessarily need our real world things to be directly connected, when the Web interface in our mobile devices provides the network access and intelligence. Andy Hobsbawm

Intelligence Words World Digital Other Our Physical Web Network Physical World Directly Devices Access Real Provides Mobile In Other Words Real World Interface Connected Many Functions Among Things Necessarily Need

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

Life Death Day Every Day People Sacrifice Every Hundreds Though Bad Carrying Bleed Like Offer Them Themselves Then Interface Engage User Even Monitor Millions Millions Of People

As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications. Bill Maris

Intelligence Better Will Other Otherwise Our Evidence Machines Possible Spinal Scary Computer Computers Countless Sound Repairing Brain Brains Gets Might Interface Helpful Traumatic Injury Applications Early Damage Treating Cord

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure. Bono

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

Will Example Software Immediately Pretty Web Only Vast Vast Majority Open Open Source Generic Particular For Example Majority Opinion Source Fits Person Site Behind Certain Interface Useful User Company Niche Actually

In addition to making Android available for free, Google also lets phone makers change the code and customize it so that an Android phone made by, say, Samsung has a different user interface than an Android phone from Motorola. Daniel Lyons

Change Phone Made Free Google Addition Say Android Also Makers Making Than Different Samsung Available Interface User Code Lets

Now, I admire The Sims as a game, but from a story viewpoint, there are two glaring problems. First, your relationship with those characters is like they're bugs in a jar. There's no empathy. And secondly, you've got this clunky, chemistry-set interface between you and them, with bars to show how tired or angry they are. It's all tell not show. Dave Morris

Angry Relationship Tired You Game Problems First Secondly Those Tell Characters Admire Glaring Empathy Between Like Bugs Got How Story Them Jar Interface Your Show Viewpoint Bars Now Two

We want to continue to explore new possibilities regarding interface and interaction. We experiment different solutions to make interface an important component for immersion rather than just a remote control. David Cage

Humanity has at least a dim, and growing, cognisance of the effects of its presence on this planet. The possibility that we might integrate that awareness into how we interface with the Earth system is one that should give us hope. David Grinspoon

Hope Humanity Awareness Earth Dim System Possibility Give How Least Integrate Effects Might Us Planet Interface Should Growing Presence

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

The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface. Ellen Ullman

Voting Computing Put Terms Question Interface Act User

The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space. Ethan Zuckerman

Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface. Franklin Foer

Elon Musk Mark Mark Zuckerberg About Invested Talks Trying Create Interface

Amalur's user interface is designed much like a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, liberally sprinkling yellow exclamation points and markers all over your mini-map in order to show you where to quest next. Jason Schreier

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product. Jef Raskin

Concerned As Far As Customer Far Interface Product

You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens. Jennifer Pahlka

Government You Made Think Took Easier Citizens Civic Something Simpler Like Venture Process Might Confusing Interface Product Use

Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface - font size, vernacular; it all matters. Joe Gebbia

Good Made First Mistakes Year Matters Own Our Considered Airbnb Ourselves Eyesight Some Never Course Came Vernacular Role Preconceptions Size Interface Designed Started

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