You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
ALAN COOPER
ALAN COOPER
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper 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.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper 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.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper 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 CooperAlan Cooper In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper 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.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
Alan CooperAlan Cooper The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
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You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone’s tired, things get on top of them.
Alan CummingAlan Cumming I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
Al PacinoAl Pacino Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
Akkineni NagarjunaAkkineni Nagarjuna How exhausting it is to keep running from and running to you at the same time.
Aurora RaineAurora Raine Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget’s cough.
Action BronsonAction Bronson But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
ZhuangziZhuangzi I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert