We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
ALAN COOPEROne of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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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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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 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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