Джеф Раскин знаменитые цитаты
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So I gave Apple a month; they made me an offer, and I refused.
Programmers At Work (1986)
Programmers At Work (1986)
Interview in The Guardian (21 October 2004)
Контексте: I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work — on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did — is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.
MacUser interview (2004)
Контексте: MacUser: If you could change one thing, what would it be?
Jef Raskin: To not have people assume you can rank every-thing one dimensionally. Or have everybody realise that killing people is not a way to solve problems.
“Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.”
On the potential to improve human-computer interaction, in interview with Berkeley Groks http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~frank/BerkeleyGroks_Raskin.htm (3 March 2004)
or favour for you Brits
MacUser interview (2004)
“Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.”
The Humane Interface (2001)
MacUser interview (2004)
“An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.”
The Humane Interface (2001)
“The system should treat all user input as sacred.”
The Humane Interface (2001)
Programmers At Work (1986)
Programmers At Work (1986)
MacUser interview (2004)
“An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.”
The Humane Interface (2001)
“A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.”
The Humane Interface (2001)
“As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.”
The Humane Interface (2001)
Programmers At Work (1986)
Programmers At Work (1986)
“A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.”
The Humane Interface (2001)
Interview in Doctor Dobb's Journal, also quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 128
"If Books Were Sold as Software" http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&dateissued=20040818#11200, NewsScan.com (18 August 2004)
If Books Were Sold as Software (2004)
Sourceforge.net article "THE Is Not An Editor... So What Is It?" (2003)