While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
ALAN COOPERWhile making art you should just do what is in your heart.
ALAN COOPERTo our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
ALAN COOPERAnd 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.
ALAN COOPERTo 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.
ALAN COOPERUsability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
ALAN COOPERIt has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
ALAN COOPERYou Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
ALAN COOPERI 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.
ALAN COOPERI’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
ALAN COOPERMy computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
ALAN COOPERKeep 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.
ALAN COOPERWe don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
ALAN COOPERThere is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPERI’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
ALAN COOPERI 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.
ALAN COOPERDefine what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPER