Jef Raskin Quotes

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me.

An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

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 most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.

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

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.