Tag archive for “Users”
“The ultimate metric that I would like to propose for user friendliness is quite simple: if this system was a person, how long would it take before you punched it in the nose?”
“Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one’s financial success is due one’s technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.”
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
“The only thing more frightening than a programmer with a screwdriver or a hardware engineer with a program is a user with a pair of wire cutters and the root password.”
“Unix was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things, because that would also stop them from doing clever things. ”
“The software isn’t finished until the last user is dead.”
“There is an old saying with software that three years from now, no one will remember if you shipped an awesome software release a few months late. What customers will still remember three years from now is if you shipped a software release that wasn’t ready a few months too soon. It takes multiple product releases to change people’s quality perception about one bad release.”
“The user’s going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.”