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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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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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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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 Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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