Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
ALAN COOPERThere is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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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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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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