Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPERTouring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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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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