Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
ALAN COOPER
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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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.
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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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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