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.
ALAN COOPER
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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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In 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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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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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