Dennis Crowley Quotes

Knowing how people will use something is essential.

I'm really curious about people - what their desires and interests are - and bit.ly's data tell me that. It gives me an unprecedented window into human communication and behavior.

As designers, we are the interface. Trying to make things understandable. That requires involving oneself with what's going on in the world. One must understand what people are, what they're up to, what they care about, how they feel.

No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.

It's amazing how people can surprise you.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

People hate to and will not read instructions.

A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of print?" In the same way, we never thought to ask, "How will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by the internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc?"

I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly- and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans.

Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably strange interplay among human beings that constitutes "scenes" in his plays, and constitutes "story" in prose fiction.

I'm interested in human behavior, and what happened in my family life is definitely not a unique story. There are aspects of that I'm sure you can see through the work. But I'm just looking for something that touches me.

There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.

Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question.

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.