We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
ALAN COOPEROne 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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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 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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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