Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
-
-
Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
ALAN COOPER -
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
ALAN COOPER -
English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
ALAN COOPER -
There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPER -
We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
ALAN COOPER -
I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
ALAN COOPER -
Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
ALAN COOPER -
While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
ALAN COOPER -
Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
ALAN COOPER -
If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
ALAN COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
ALAN COOPER -
The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
ALAN COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPER