A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
ALAN COOPERThere is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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