If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
ALAN COOPERIf you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as 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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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’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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.
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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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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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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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