Top 175 Interface Quotes & Sayings

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

What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface.

Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.

A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice recognition, this human-interface robot or head-of-household robot will serve as a portal to the digital domain. It becomes your interface to your robot-enabled home.

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

The new course we're on at Interface ... is to pioneer the next Industrial Revolution: one that is kinder and gentler to the earth.

Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface - font size, vernacular; it all matters.

Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.

The Internet didn't become usable until Netscape because that gave the average person a user interface that was intuitive, simple, friendly - this made it accessible.

I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.

Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.

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

Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.

Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.

Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.

Radically simplify the user interface, reinvent it, enough face lifts! You can put as much lipstick on a chicken as you want, it's never going to look good!

Design a clear and simple interface. The primary task of the interface is to present the player with a choice of the available actions at each moment and to provide instant feedback when the player makes a choice.

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

Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.

There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.

Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.

My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was that, when the time came and I had to get one done, I would design my own, fresh, without knowing how other people do it. That was another thing that made me very good. All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and (b) not having done it before, ever. Every single thing that we came out with that was really great, I'd never once done that thing in my life.

User interface is customer service for the computer.

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

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

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

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface.

That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

The HMI (human-machine interface) function inside a Ferrari is probably the weakest link in the chain of technical know-how that's embodied in the car.

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

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.

We want to continue to explore new possibilities regarding interface and interaction. We experiment different solutions to make interface an important component for immersion rather than just a remote control.

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

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

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

Mark Zuckerberg talks about telepathy, and Elon Musk has invested in trying to create a brain-machine interface.

Anyone can dream up great ideas, but an idea is nothing until it's realized, be it as a website, a physical product, an app, or a user interface.

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

Health care organizations don't ask us to interface to every type of module because they understand that it could cause safety problems.

The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.

I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.

Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

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.

The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.

To the user, the interface is the product.

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.

The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.

But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.