CodeQuotes » Users http://codequotes.com random technology quotations Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:38:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Carey: User-friendliness http://codequotes.com/2006/08/17/carey-user-friendliness http://codequotes.com/2006/08/17/carey-user-friendliness#comments Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:07:01 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2006/08/17/carey-user-friendliness “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?”

— Tom Carey

]]> http://codequotes.com/2006/08/17/carey-user-friendliness/feed 0 Carnegie: Success is about people http://codequotes.com/2006/07/22/carnegie-success-is-about-people http://codequotes.com/2006/07/22/carnegie-success-is-about-people#comments Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:43:12 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2006/07/22/carnegie-success-is-about-people “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.”

— Dale Carnegie

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— Steve Jobs

]]> http://codequotes.com/2006/04/14/jobs-design/feed 0 Zwicky: Users with the root password http://codequotes.com/2006/03/30/zwicky-users-with-the-root-password http://codequotes.com/2006/03/30/zwicky-users-with-the-root-password#comments Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:51:03 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2006/03/30/zwicky-users-with-the-root-password “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.”

— Elizabeth Zwicky

]]> http://codequotes.com/2006/03/30/zwicky-users-with-the-root-password/feed 0 Gwyn: Unix http://codequotes.com/2006/03/19/gwyn-unix http://codequotes.com/2006/03/19/gwyn-unix#comments Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:12:15 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2006/03/19/gwyn-unix “Unix was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things, because that would also stop them from doing clever things. ”

— Doug Gwyn

]]> http://codequotes.com/2006/03/19/gwyn-unix/feed 0 Anonymous: Software never finished http://codequotes.com/2006/03/04/anonymous-software-never-finished-2 http://codequotes.com/2006/03/04/anonymous-software-never-finished-2#comments Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:28:20 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2006/03/04/anonymous-software-never-finished-2 “The software isn’t finished until the last user is dead.”

— Anonymous

]]> http://codequotes.com/2006/03/04/anonymous-software-never-finished-2/feed 0 Guthrie: Quality http://codequotes.com/2006/03/03/guthrie-quality http://codequotes.com/2006/03/03/guthrie-quality#comments Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:11:37 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/2006/03/03/guthrie-quality “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.”

— Scott Guthrie

]]> http://codequotes.com/2006/03/03/guthrie-quality/feed 0 Schneier: Security and dancing pigs http://codequotes.com/2006/02/11/bruce-schneier-security-and-dancing-pigs http://codequotes.com/2006/02/11/bruce-schneier-security-and-dancing-pigs#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:39:35 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/archives/20 “The user’s going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.”

— Bruce Schneier

]]> http://codequotes.com/2006/02/11/bruce-schneier-security-and-dancing-pigs/feed 0 Adams: Foolproof design http://codequotes.com/2006/02/04/6 http://codequotes.com/2006/02/04/6#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:40:25 +0000 Neal Enssle http://codequotes.com/archives/6 “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”

— Douglas Adams

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