"It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines."

--

Donald A. Norman

#People Quotes #Design Quotes #Arbitrary Quotes

“I was always able to throw-it's not something I consciously worked on.”
“Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.”
“Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists...when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading your emails, it's better not to know whether yet another entity is watching you.”
“Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.”

Source : Francis Atterbury, Nitish K. Basu (1740). “A History of English Literature: The Norman conquest to the dawn of Renaissance & Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.105
“I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.”
“I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.”
“You don't suppose that the photo ops and the military convoys arriving at the same time were a coincidence, do you, Wolf ... Situation Room.”
“"You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four." "I can count to more than four," answered Mouse, very offended. "And I can do hard sums, and I know geography and history, and I can knit and ..."”

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