The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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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 an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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