"Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity."

-- Jakob Nielsen

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“I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.”
“Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?”

Source : "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly", November 9, 1870.
“When you come out of the storm, you wonâ€™t be the same person who walked in. Thatâ€™s what this stormâ€™s all about.”
“The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to use racism-sexism to prevent universalism from moving too far in the direction of egalitarianism; to use universalism to prevent racism-sexism from moving too far in the direction of a caste system that would inhibit the work force mobility so necessary for the capitalist accumulation process.”
“[On Philadelphia society:] The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties -- the men are gay and the women are in their nineties.”
“If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.”
“We have learned nothing from the genome.”

Source : "'We Have Learned Nothing from the Genome'". Interview with Rafaela von Bredow and Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. July 29, 2010.
“Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.”

Source : "100 Great Australians". Book by Robert Macklin, 1983.

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