You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
ALAN COOPERRun for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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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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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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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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In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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