Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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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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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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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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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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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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