It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
ALAN COOPERYou can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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 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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