Daniel J. Bernstein Quotes

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.

As far as the customer is concerned, 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.

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don't hesitate to add features.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.

We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

It's going to be so obvious when something isn't well made for VR. People are going to use the best VR content. That's the stuff that's going to get shown to people. That's the stuff that's going to get demoed. That's most of what people are going to buy.

People appreciate a good product, a stable system. They want to communicate easily and use a product that just works.

We try hard to provide the best user experience possible, and that means the best ads possible, so we work with the brands to come up with the best images.

We want to make sure every user is happy.

It doesn't matter how good your product solution is if users don't enjoy or understand how to use it.

Ultimately, you have to provide value to the user.

If a whole bunch of users want a specific feature, and we think that feature is pretty cool, too, that that's just what we'll do.

What users want is convenience and results.

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.

Technology for technology's sake is not innovation. What we in the industry have to be concerned about is what products do, as opposed to what the processing power is.