Form follows function straight to hell.
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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as 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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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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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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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