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.
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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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 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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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