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.
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.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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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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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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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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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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