As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
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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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