#interface

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. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#company #decade #eight #graphical #had

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

— Ben Shneiderman

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

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

— Jeff Bezos

#creative energy #else #energy #i #interface

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

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

— Jef Raskin

#first #implement #interface #known #once

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

— Vernor Vinge

#artificial #artificial intelligence #i #i am #intelligence

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

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. ↗

— Robert Patterson

#collection #copy #due #finale #how

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. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#accepted #apple #beautifully #billing #brand