And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
ALAN COOPERIn turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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