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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Alan Cooper

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.
ALAN COOPER

Affect Dep Fell Love Music Show Teenager Way
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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Before Business Certain Father Good Husband Just Learn Rock Star Thing Try
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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Around Branch Foster Memory Scene Silver Sprung Tendril Until Vine Young
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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Balance Color Contour Contrast Form General Geometric High Interface Keep Minimal Palette Restrict Should Simple
There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPER

Against Common Logic One Only Pure Sense Thing
Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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Chair Like Method Sandpaper Usability
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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Beautiful Better Cool Interface Less Matter
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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Computer Human Imagine Memory Simply Something True
If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
ALAN COOPER

Amount Chair Make Sandpaper Smoother Table Turn
While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
ALAN COOPER

Do Heart Just Make
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 COOPER

Different Experiment Just Keep Kind Like Make Music Over Record Same Want
Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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Again Bliss Chord Contain Dream Estrange Heart Joy Like Past Retain Slight Still
Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Before Define Design Product
You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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Book Nothing Out Religion Spiritual Story Thing
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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Behave Design Generous Helpful Likeable Person Respect Software User
It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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Industry Midget Software Stand Toe

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