#interface

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

— Ken Thompson

#close #good #good idea #i #i think

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. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#commercial #company #correctly #important #interface

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

— Jon Postel

#interface #nice #put #really #stuff

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

— Jef Raskin

#concerned #customer #far #interface #product

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. ↗

— Lee Scott

#digital #each #i #i think #interface

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. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#answer #basic #changed #code #come

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#builders #database #first #forth #fully

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. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#device #drivers #empathy #humans #interface

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

#computing #discovered #good #i #interfaces

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

— Ben Shneiderman

#picture #picture is worth #pictures #thousand #thousand words