Roberta Williams Quotes

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

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.

Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

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

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

If you step back and take a holistic look, I think any reasonable person would say Android is innovating at a pretty fast pace and getting it to users.

We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Something else has happened with computers.

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.