Form follows function straight to hell.
ALAN COOPERComputers 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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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