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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.

Alan Cooper

Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPER

Computer Invade Life Live Run
Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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Balance Color Contour Contrast Form General Geometric High Interface Keep Minimal Palette Restrict Should Simple
There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Against Common Logic One Only Pure Sense Thing
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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Around Branch Foster Memory Scene Silver Sprung Tendril Until Vine Young
Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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Interfere Typography Vary Widely
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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Computer Dependent Hopeful Irreversible Kill Life Modern Monster Possible
Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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Again Bliss Chord Contain Dream Estrange Heart Joy Like Past Retain Slight Still
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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Amazing Bring Fan Hold Keep Seem Teenager
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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Asshole Business Heinous Insidious Lie Most Notion Person Successful
Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Before Define Design Product
And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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Being Human Interact Object React Sentiment Soon Sufficient
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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Behave Computer Human Less Like Rock Mind People Treat Tree Unconsciously
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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Alien Computer Facemfriend Human Manner Memory Own Recognize Work
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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Industry Midget Software Stand Toe
There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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Between Complicate Confuse Difference Fun Little Powerful Product Program Simple Technical
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.
ALAN COOPER

Different Experiment Just Keep Kind Like Make Music Over Record Same Want

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