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.
ALAN COOPERComputer 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.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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