#interface

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

— Jef Raskin

#frailties #human #human needs #humane #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

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

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

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

— Jaron Lanier

#because #change #complexity #crummy #expensive

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

— Jef Raskin

#concerned #customer #far #interface #product

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#click #each #first #going #interfaces

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