Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPERWhile making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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