No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
ALAN COOPERWell madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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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’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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