Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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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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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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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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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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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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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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