126 User Quotes for You to Enjoy

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own. Jesse James Garrett

I'm not a good katana user, bo staff user. Jessica Henwick

Good Staff User

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain. Jill Abramson

Big Libraries Had Sustain Public User

We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast. Jim Allchin

Music Business Digital Enthusiast Pushing Audiences Child Whether User Fast

My first album, 'Englaborn,' was based on music originally written for the theatre. My solo albums, like 'IBM 1401, a User's Manual' and 'Fordlandia,' have also had narratives attached to them. Johann Johannsson

Music Theatre First Solo Attached Had Written Like Also Narratives Them Manual User Originally Based Album Albums

I have done a pretty good job of partitioning my life digitally, posting utterances and stories that I'm happy to share with anyone on Twitter, leaving a few sparse comments and 'Likes' on Facebook (I'm not a huge user of the service, I'll be honest), and sending any number of photos to thousands of 'followers' on Instagram and Tumblr. John Battelle

Life Service Good Happy Facebook Good Job Job My Life Few Twitter Thousands Photos Posting Pretty Followers Pretty Good Instagram Share Likes Leaving Huge Comments Sending Any Done Tumblr Anyone Stories User Number Honest

The iPhone was the first phone that brought what we used to think of as 'desktop quality' software to a handheld platform: software where you just say, 'Wow, that's a great user experience,' not merely, 'Wow, that's a great user experience for a handheld.' John Gruber

Great You Quality Experience Phone First Think Software Say Wow Brought Merely iPhone Just Where Used User Platform Desktop

I'm an Amazon Prime member. I subscribe to Netflix and Hulu, and they have great user interfaces and some excellent original programs. But what truly distinguishes all three of these services is the utility of their vast libraries of acquired content, which also is a part of what makes each a platform, even if it has a 'house brand,' too. John Landgraf

Great Three Subscribe Too Programs Distinguishes Libraries Member Some Netflix Vast Excellent Part Prime House Also Content Makes Truly Amazon Brand Hulu Which Acquired User Original Even Each Platform Utility Services

As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke. John McWhorter

Time You People Complicated Walk Language Somewhere Stroke Pretty Having Never Spoken Look Most Around Without How Go Heard Friendly Going Tiny Us Languages Hard Speaking English User User-Friendly Hard Time Chances Imagining

Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out. John Sculley

Best Experience Design Everything System Out Through Feel Like Look Industrial How Understood Were Laid Whether Boards Lens User Even Apple Things Designing

All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it. Jon Postel

Nice Web Put Stuff Via Done Really Interface User

We use content-addressing so content can be decoupled from origin servers and, instead, can be stored permanently. This means content can be stored and served very close to the user, perhaps even from a computer in the same room. Juan Benet

Computer Instead Perhaps Content Permanently Very Close Same Stored Room Means Use User Origin Even Served

As any good entrepreneur will tell you, it's much harder to acquire a user a second time after a bad product experience than it is to acquire them the first time. Justin Caldbeck

Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network. Keith Teare

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password. Kevin Mitnick

Trick Some Name Providing User Program

One of the cool things we're seeing at TaskRabbit is local tech and gaming startups hiring TaskRabbits to test their products and deliver immediate user feedback. As the founder of a tech startup, I can tell you that this type of focus group testing is paramount - and usually really pricey and difficult to coordinate. Leah Busque

You Feedback Focus Group Difficult Startup Startups Type Local Immediate Tell Paramount Seeing Deliver Test Hiring Testing Really Products Gaming User Cool Tech Coordinate Founder Things

Give me a user manual, and I'm happy for hours. Lennon Parham

Me Happy Give Give Me Hours Manual User

Mobile forced us to rethink the user experience and do something people would be able to carry out on in a couple of seconds on the mobile phone. By stripping out all the work the user used to do and putting that on the company, we were able to create a much better user experience. Logan Green

Work Experience People Phone Better Seconds Stripping Out Carry Would Would-Be Able Something Something People Rethink Putting Couple Forced Were Mobile Us Create Much Used User Company

The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's also known as the 'user pay' principle. Every effort should be made to link the payment of taxes or fees to the cost associated with the government service. Mark Skousen

Steam is not really leading the PC in any creative way, but it certainly has proved that the PC is a viable commercial platform by having a product that is amazingly easy to use for the end user, to the point where it's easier to buy a game on Steam than it is to pirate it. Markus Persson

Buy Game Creative Way Easier Easy Having Steam Point Leading Proved Amazingly End Commercial Than Pirate Viable Any Where Really Product Use Certainly User Platform

The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace. Marvin Ammori

Service Good Innovation Internet Marketplace Classes Some Good Reason Network Networks Toward Namely Bias Makers Providers Banned Decisions Choice Should Interferes Reason User Service Providers Application Applications Competitive

The user, not the ISP, should be the kingmaker of apps. Marvin Ammori

Apps Should User

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