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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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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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do 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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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