You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
ALAN COOPERThe things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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.
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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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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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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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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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