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.
ALAN COOPERAs these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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