No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
ALAN COOPERYou Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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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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