Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
ALAN COOPERPast dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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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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