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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More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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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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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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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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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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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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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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