User Motivation Quotes

The majority of people who don't have Internet, don't have the Internet because they don't know why they want to use the Internet.

People go to the front page of BuzzFeed partly because they've seen a bunch of things in their stream, and they're like, 'Oh, I like this site. Why don't I go to the source?' I think that happens. But also people are going to look for something to share.

Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that?

I could put a sudoku at the end of every chapter and you'd have to solve it to progress through the story, but that doesn't address what would make people want to interact.

When you're introducing a mobile app, you look around and say, 'We could be doing 15 different things, but how do we communicate to someone why they would want to download and even sign up for this thing?'

When fans know they are being rewarded, they are more engaged.

LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.