As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
ALAN COOPERTouring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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