Interface Quotes

In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

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

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

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

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

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.

More and more, more and more digital, in particular, I think you'll see in our stores next year, as we start combining these digital products and they interface with each other, you'll see that represented in Wal-Mart.

People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.

Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.