You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
ALAN COOPERBecause computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
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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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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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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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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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