I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
ALAN COOPEREnglish bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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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 Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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