Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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