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.
ALAN COOPERIf we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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