Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPERDefine what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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