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 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.
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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
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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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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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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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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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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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