We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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