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  • I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

  • Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

  • The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.

    "BlackBerry CEO calls Apple's iPhone user interface outdated" by Katie Marsal, appleinsider.com. March 18, 2013.
  • A design is intuitive when people just know what to do and they don’t have to go through any training to get there When a design is not intuitive, our attention moves away from what we’re trying to accomplish to how we can get the interface to accomplish what we want.

    Moving   People   Design  
  • As designers, we are the interface. Trying to make things understandable. That requires involving oneself with what's going on in the world. One must understand what people are, what they're up to, what they care about, how they feel.

    People   Trying   World  
  • White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.

    Fear   Gun   Cities  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.360, Bantam
  • Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

    "A Quarter Century of UNIX". Book by Peter H. Salus, 1980.
  • 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   Mind  
  • It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.

    Real   Waiting   Friendly  
  • I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

    Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
  • To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

    Self   Design   Pay  
  • When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.

    Sex   Tangled   Design  
  • Design a clear and simple interface. The primary task of the interface is to present the player with a choice of the available actions at each moment and to provide instant feedback when the player makes a choice.

    Simple   Player   Choices  
    "Designing story-based games". www.jordanmechner.com. November 8, 2011.
  • When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

  • Radically simplify the user interface, reinvent it, enough face lifts! You can put as much lipstick on a chicken as you want, it's never going to look good!

    Looks   Want   Faces  
  • 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.

    "With New Funding and Fellows, Code for America Looks to Scale Civic Innovation Across the Country" by Alexander Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.
  • A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

    "User Interface Design For Programmers". Book by Joel Spolsky, www.joelonsoftware.com. October 24, 2001.
  • Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.

    Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • To the user, the interface is the product.

  • Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

    "Life's looking up, Dame Harriet". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.
  • Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface

    "C Programming". Interview with Al Stevens, collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca. 1995.
  • That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

  • History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.

    "BlackBerry CEO calls Apple's iPhone user interface outdated" by Katie Marsal, appleinsider.com. March 18, 2013.
  • Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface.

    Real   Home   Keys  
    Richard Dooling (2008). “Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ”, p.6, Crown
  • If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It's a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you - the Mystery. The one that can never be solved.

    Dark   Thinking   Soul  
  • But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.

  • You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

    Loyalty   Iphone   Apples  
    "Hell Freezes Over: Warner Music claims Itunes is Digital Music Done Right" by Bryan Gardiner, www.wired.com. November 14, 2007.
  • Cloud storage in data centers will utilize the latest developments in physical storage virtualization, deduplication and other methods to make the most effective use of physical storage assets. Software defined storage could allow a further level of abstraction and cost effectiveness. The vast bulk of content stored "in the cloud" will reside on large SATA interface HDDs with some on magnetic (mostly LTO) tape (particularly for "archives.")

  • There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.

    Song   Art   Voice  
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