Yukihiro Matsumoto Quotes

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

If you focus on what people care about, you have ideas. And people are looking for solutions.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.

Design is people.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

Our America is an America where human needs come before human greed.

At the core of the products we build, I want to think about productivity centered around people.

We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don't want you to bend to computers.

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.

You are not designing for yourself, and shouldn't be. Most people using the Web don't understand (most of) what makes it work and don't want to. Design for those people. There are many more of them than you.

What do people want? Well, you really can’t talk about wants until you talk about needs.

The world is complex, and so too must be the activities that we perform. But that doesn't mean that we must live in continual frustration. No. The whole point of human-centered design is to tame complexity, to turn what would appear to be a complicated tool into one that fits the task, that is understandable, usable, enjoyable.

All business models have something challenging about them, but the problem with the attention merchant business model they have is they need to keep increasing the amount of ads they deliver to people and therefore make their product worse.

Siri has proven to us that people want to relate to the phone in a different way.

The Palestinian people's needs must be respected.

I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.

If you will focus on meeting other people’s needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.

We all have the same needs. So it's immoral to make snap judgments about people.

People will say what they want to say, and it's okay. And my life will go on, and I need to focus on my life. So, do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman? I sure hope I don't. I know I am.

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.