Quote: people are used to dealing with a rich and deceptive environment, e.g., driving on an expressway [»weisM11_1987]

Quote: a computer user's situation and the user's construal of the situation change very rapidly; many errors, changing goals and system state [»carrJM9_1988]

Quote: tastes, odors, colors are mere names as far material objects are concerned; they are only excitations of living animals; same as tickling and armpits

Quote: it is important to remember that design and programming are human activities [»stroB_1991]

Quote: the human form in movement displayed far more overall activity than anyone had supposed

Quote: you cannot run a business, or anything else involving people, on a theory [»geneH_1984]

Quote: can use Turing Test for subcognitive questions that require immersion in a culture; e.g., 'Rate dry leaves as hiding places' or 'bread butter' vs. 'dog butter' [»frenRM1_1990]

Quote: subcognitive questions and Turing Test require a lifetime of experience with complex inter-relations, including useless trivia [»frenRM1_1990]

Quote: all intelligence must have a subcognitive substrate to compose categories; otherwise need to define all possible attributes of each category in every context [»frenRM1_1990]

Quote: the human brain with its subtle esthetic sensibility will remain irreplaceable for ages to come [»thomR_1975]

Quote: neither calculations nor machines can replace the mathematician. They can find order but not unexpected order [»poinH_1908, OK]

Quote: the soul of a fact is its unexpected order

Quote: Apple Desktop Interface assumes that people are curious, strive for mastery, enjoy communicating, with imagination and artistry [»apple_1987]

Quote: humans unlike computers: diversity of skills, creativity, emotional involvement, social contact, intention [»shneB_1987]

Quote: AI can only produce zombanimals; it can not produce people with free will, creativity, consciousness, and abstract reasoning [»brinS10_2000]

Quote: responsibility is a key difference between people and systems; people are held responsible for their actions [»holtAW11_1966]

Quote: a mail system cannot guarantee that the recipient has taken responsibility for a message; leaves both sides uncertain about each other's state [»cashPM1_1980]

Quote: a role must be fully explicable if a computer is to act in the role; roles of real, responsible people are not explicable [»holtAW_1979]

Quote: perception is a simple substance that cannot be explained mechanically. Imagine entering a thinking machine. Many parts impinge on one another but none are the perceptions [»leibGW_1679]

Quote: a movement sequence (action) may contain illogical steps; e.g., tightening a belt in order to loosen it; difficult for animals or small children [»bernNA_1947]

Quote: users effortlessly move their hands relative to one another, but they require conscious effort to move relative a fixed 3D space

Quote: the grasshopper jumps without seeing where; most jumps are failures [»bernNA_1947]

Quote: what matters is the nature of ideas; they will always be hard to develop, organize, and transmit [»nelsTH_1974]

Quote: the purpose of design is to communicate an idea to others, not to a computer [»cainSH_1975]

Quote: a person will try to predict the probable outcome of each alternative; a computer can only try something and examine the consequences [»stroT_1985]

Quote: the subjunctive corresponds to predicting outcomes, e.g., What would happen if ... [»stroT_1985]

Quote: in stories without available scripts, we reconstruct the planning process of each character to determine their plans and goals [»schaRC_1981]

Quote: people though approximate and fallible, define criteria, evaluate, and guide [»lickJC_1960]

Quote: advice on programming, make a plan; a baffling piece of advice that is independent of rules [»turiA3_1951]

Quote: computers can only do tasks which people have broken into very small steps; people do not know how to turn many tasks into steps; e.g., recognition, common sense, solving a problem [»millHD9_1982]

Quote: solving a problem is different than calculating an answer to a problem

Quote: human intelligence includes things which are not broken into steps; e.g., common sense, recognition, problem solving

Quote: Andrew's Advisor system first tried automatic filing of messages by subject; 50% misclassification, too cluttered [»boreNS9_1988]

Quote: no automated routine can distinguish useless from relevant communications; especially when a user's tasks and interests change [»hiltSR7_1985]

Quote: human limitations include error-prone, unpredictable, slow communication, small short-term memory, degrades with overload, sensitive to response time [»cherDR_1976]