Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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