"Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You canâ€™t use what you canâ€™t find."

-- Peter Morville

#Use Quotes #Alphabet Quotes #Usability Quotes

“The media is the right arm of anarchy.”
“Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.”
“Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.”

Source : Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Fishing Virgin Sea”, p.154, Derrydale Press
“The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.”
“Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at more than an intellectual level. You need to surprise people with something that disturbs their view that everything is perfect.”
“The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.”

Source : David Douglas (1987). “Wilderness sojourn: notes in the desert silence”, Harper San Francisco
“I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!”
“I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.”

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