Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPERComputer 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.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
-
-
You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
ALAN COOPER -
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
ALAN COOPER -
A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
ALAN COOPER -
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 -
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 COOPER -
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
ALAN COOPER -
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
ALAN COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
ALAN COOPER -
As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
ALAN COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
ALAN COOPER -
There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPER -
While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
ALAN COOPER