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.
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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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And 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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