I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
ALAN COOPERNo matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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