There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPERIn 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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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