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.
ALAN COOPERIt has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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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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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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