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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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