Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
ALAN COOPERRun for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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 been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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