"When you have trouble with thingsâ€”whether it's figuring out whether to push or pull a door or the arbitrary vagaries of the modern computer and electronics industriesâ€”it's not your fault. Don't blame yourself: blame the designer."

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Source : "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Introduction to the 2002 Edition, p. x, 2002.

Donald A. Norman

#Doors Quotes #Arbitrary Quotes #Electronics Quotes

“God, he whom everyone knows, by name.”
“I think that gulf is what makes the work interesting, but as a creator it's endlessly frustrating because I'm starting out with this goal, this thing I'm trying to create, and then the thing I actually do create is very, very different. It's always painful, in some ways, especially when it's just finished.”
“The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.”
“Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.”
“With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.”

Source : Ingeborg Bachmann (1989). “Three Paths to the Lake: Stories”, Holmes & Meier Pub
“And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night.”

Source : "Song: "Don't Push"". "40 Oz. to Freedom", June 1, 1992.
“Most folks call them green onions, but they're really scallions.”

Source : Song: Christmas Dragnet
“Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice--that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation.”

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