I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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.
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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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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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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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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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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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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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