If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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.
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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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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’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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 we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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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 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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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