Quote of the day
This page shows a daily quote from the collection of quotes relevant to interaction design compiled over the years. Some quotes are thought-provoking, some are less so. The quotes were found in books, articles, newsgroups, dictionaries, on websites etc.
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Today's Quote
"[Artifacts] mediate activity that connects a person not only with the world of objects, but also with other people. This means that a person's activity assimilates the experience of humanity."
-- Leont'ev (1974)
Previous quotes
Yesterday
"The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing."
-- Edward Tufte, 2005
The day before yesterday
"The high-tech industry has inadvertently put programmers and engineers in charge, so their hard-to-use engineering culture dominates. Despite appearances, business executives are simply not the ones in control of the high-tech industry. It is the engineers who are running the show. In our rush to accept the many benefits of the silicon chip, we have abdicated our responsibilities. We have let the inmates run the asylum."
-- Alan Cooper, The Inmates are Running the Asylum, p. 15.
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