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Alan Cooper

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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Amount Chair Make Sandpaper Smoother Table Turn
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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Computer Invade Life Live Run
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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Around Branch Foster Memory Scene Silver Sprung Tendril Until Vine Young
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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Computer Dependent Hopeful Irreversible Kill Life Modern Monster Possible
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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Beautiful Better Cool Interface Less Matter
There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Against Common Logic One Only Pure Sense Thing
I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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Cool Die Evolve Kind Musician New Thing Try
If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Album Believer Early Fan Go Huge Impossible New Possible Produce Put Quickly
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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Annoy Corner Even Every Few Infuriate Kill Live Machine
Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Before Define Design Product
You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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Exhaust Go Home Work
While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Do Heart Just Make
I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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Believer Early Huge Music Possible Put Quick
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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Affect Dep Fell Love Music Show Teenager Way
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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Back Break Design Last Principle Thing
In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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Around Begin Behave Human Instinct Other Sentient Special Tell Word

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