Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPERUsability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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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.
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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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