Human-Centered Approach Quotes

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

I think we need to take a look at the technology, but not depend on it for things that require humanity.

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

We are experiencing new problems every day and whatever we do adds to the richness of our cultural heritage as long as it has man as its centre

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

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.

And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader’s vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way.

In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.

The best marketing strategy ever: CARE

The key to understanding my career is that I was never into technology. From the beginning, I brought an outsider's point of view, which is why I write for a layman's publication.

The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished.

I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

So as a founder, you have an authenticity and a human factor that is really special and that gives an enormous amount of energy and fuel. But as a founder, you’re also not as cold, maybe, or as pragmatic.