Human Interface Quotes

We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go in-between, that can talk to god or communicate ideas. Then there are the talking heads in the news every time we watch TV. No matter how complex, you still need a person there to tell you what happened: a storyteller of sorts. I find that fascinating that we feel so attached to this primitive mode of connection, this primitive interface to the world.

Why would you not have a robot that looks like Abraham Lincoln? Why would it look like an erector set? Why use a computer with a punchcard, when you could use one with a touch pen on the screen? Why a car, when you could use a jetpack?

The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.

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'm an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.

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

A motion-sensing controller that you hold with both hands is completely different from one that you can use with either your right or left hand.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.