Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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