We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
ALAN COOPERThere is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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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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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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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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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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