There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPERIf you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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