You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
ALAN COOPERWhen 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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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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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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