If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so … - Jef Raskin

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten.

Jef Raskin

If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.

Correct, Loyal, Monoty, Nearly, Population, Use

Same Author Quotes

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

Concerned, Customer, Design, Educational, Experience, Product

What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.

1000, Crazy, Down, Ideas, Jobs, Sell

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

Content, File, Length, Name, Names, Unlimited

I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?

Confusion, Design, Everything, Mind, Question, Work

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

Box, Care, Doe, Done, Long, Needs

Similar Quotes

Paul Davies

I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the sky at night and think am I alone in the universe? Well most people get over it, but I never did and though I made a career more in physics and cosmology than astrobiology I've always had a soft spot for the subject of life because it does seem so mysterious.

Back, Looking, Night, Sky, Teenager, Thinking

Stephen King

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics. ' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.

Advice, Broken, Critics, Thinking

Robert Bridges

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Firsts, Guess, Hard, Love, Masters

Kevin Drumm

For me, the tabletop is an easy way to eliminate the possibilities of chords, modes, melodies, and harmonies. It kind of confines you to this other sound sphere. I know anyone facing this kind of dilemma could always just find another instrument more suitable to their needs, such as a sampler or synthesizer, but I figured I have a guitar and amp so why not just use them?

Dilemma, Easy, Harmonies, Harmony, Kind, Tabletop

Veronica Roth