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.

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

The system should treat all user input as sacred.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

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.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

The money is great, no way am I complaining.

You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

Am I complaining about my deafness? No, I am not.

Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.

Complaining is an insult to God.