Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
ALAN COOPERThere is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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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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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’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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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