We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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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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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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 also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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