It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
ALAN COOPERWell 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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
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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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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