"Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop."

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Source : Jakob Nielsen (2000). “Designing Web Usability”, New Riders Pub

Jakob Nielsen

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“I once said to someone, If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.”
“You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.”
“I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians I got to play with, a collection of mementos. I'm kind of the opposite of a hoarder, as I try to get rid of everything.”
“It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical”
“Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow”
“Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.”
“Respect every opponent, but fear none.”
“Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.”

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