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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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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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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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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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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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