It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
ALAN COOPERAnd 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 seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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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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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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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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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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