It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
ALAN COOPERIf 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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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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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