One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
ALAN COOPERPast dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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