I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
ALAN COOPERJust how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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 Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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