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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.

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.
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Amount Chair Make Sandpaper Smoother Table Turn
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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Before Business Certain Father Good Husband Just Learn Rock Star Thing Try
Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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Computer Invade Life Live Run
Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Before Define Design Product
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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Industry Midget Software Stand Toe
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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Asshole Business Heinous Insidious Lie Most Notion Person Successful
Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Another Club Dinner Except Geet Men One Perhaps Rugby
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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Alien Computer Facemfriend Human Manner Memory Own Recognize Work
When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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Affect Dep Fell Love Music Show Teenager Way
I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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Cool Die Evolve Kind Musician New Thing Try
The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Could Fight Lucky Pretty Really Thing
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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Beautiful Better Cool Interface Less Matter
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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Behave Computer Human Less Like Rock Mind People Treat Tree Unconsciously
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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Annoy Corner Even Every Few Infuriate Kill Live Machine
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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Break Need Next One Out Put Record Tour Work
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.
ALAN COOPER

Computer Critical Deeper Human Interact Interface Longer More Sturdily Subtle Survival

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