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If books were sold as software and online recordings are, they would have this legalese up front:.Or have everybody realise that killing people is not a way to solve problems. Jef Raskin: To not have people assume you can rank every-thing one dimensionally. MacUser: If you could change one thing, what would it be?.Or we can do it by subject and admire Aristotle, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein for their pulling from nature comprehensible laws or Euclid, Gauss and Gödel for their contributions to mathematics or people who have influenced me very directly, in which case I'd mention my very admirable parents and the teacher who taught me to be intellectually independent, L R Genise or how about Claude Shannon without whose work on information theory I would have been lost. Let's start with people named George: George Cantor for moving infinity out of philosophy into mathematics, George Washington for showing how a leader should relinquish power, and George Bernard Shaw for his humanity. Jef Raskin: For what attribute? Once again you ask a question that linearises a complex matter. MacUser: Which person do you most admire?.Morality demands that I write for Wintel machines first (Linux comes along free), and port to Macs when there is time. 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.

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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.

What used to be a night-and-day difference in usability has become a small increment in Apple's favor (or favour for you Brits).

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Not no difference, but at home we have - along with six Macs (one for everybody plus my travelling iBook) - three PCs and one Linux box, and I can move from one to the other without having to think about it much.

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Now there is little difference, except packaging, between a Mac and a Windows machine.

MacUser interview (2004) Interview: 'Jef Raskin: the man who should be king' (11 June 2004)

If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.

When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.

The content of a file is its own best name.

An unlimited-length file name is a file.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

The system should treat all user input as sacred.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first then implement to the interface design.

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The Humane Interface (2001) Full title: The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

Interview in The Guardian (21 October 2004).

In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution. 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.

I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become.

On the potential to improve human-computer interaction, in interview with Berkeley Groks (3 March 2004).

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

As we cannot change the way our minds work, we must change the interface design. These flaws have to do with incompatibilities between the designs of both GUIs and command-line interfaces and the way our brains are wired. Unfortunately, we have learned that the GUI concept has fundamental flaws that cannot be corrected by small changes.

It would be wonderful if we could just tuck in a few loose ends and change a handful of details of present systems to have them work properly.

Interview in Doctor Dobb's Journal, also quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p.

This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way.

1.5 Information Appliances: A New Industry (white paper, 1986).

1.3 If Books Were Sold as Software (2004).

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