While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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 you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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