As more and more good ideas come under the protection of patents, it may become increasingly unlikely that any one program can incorporate the state of the art in user-interface design without sinking into a quagmire of unending royalty payments and legal battles.
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Borenstein, Nathaniel S. (1991). Programming as if people mattered : friendly programs, software engineering, and other noble delusions (4. print. ed.). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. pp. 52. ISBN 9780691087528.Nathaniel Borenstein
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Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
Jef Raskin
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!
Philippe Kahn
The user of the electric light -- or a hammer, or a language, or a book -- is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.
Marshall McLuhan
Software patents may be used as a form of outright coercion, providing protection against theft of ideas as a potentially high cost to future inventors.
Nathaniel Borenstein
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
James Joyce
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