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Quotes by Jef Raskin

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
– Jef Raskin
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
– Jef Raskin
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
– Jef Raskin
I'm developing cross platform now, and I'm as interested in helping as many people as possible to have a better experience when using computers. Morality demands that I write for Wintel machines first (Linux comes along free), and port to Macs when there is time.
– Jef Raskin
I've moved on, grown and learned in the years since then, and am designing interfaces that make the Mac's GUI feel as clumsy to use as the Mac made the old DOS-based systems feel primitive.
– Jef Raskin
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
– Jef Raskin
I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work - on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy.
– Jef Raskin
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
– Jef Raskin
Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.
– Jef Raskin
The system should treat all user input as sacred.
– Jef Raskin
Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.
– Jef Raskin
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
– Jef Raskin