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I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

— Ted Nelson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

— Gary Wolf

I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.

— G. Willow Wilson

I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

— Jack Ma

As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching.

— Kristi Yamaguchi

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

— Linus Torvalds

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

— Mitch Kapor

I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.

— Jean Alesi

✗Opposing Perspectives

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

— Francois-Henri Pinault

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

— Dave Barry

Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.

— Douglas Rushkoff