It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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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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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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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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