Form follows function straight to hell.
ALAN COOPEROne 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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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 also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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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.
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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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