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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.

Alan Cooper

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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Being Human Interact Object React Sentiment Soon Sufficient
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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Amount Chair Make Sandpaper Smoother Table Turn
Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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Answer Design Excellent Just Paper Prototype Question Short
We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Artistic Direction Fight Music Think
I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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Believer Early Huge Music Possible Put Quick
You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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Book Nothing Out Religion Spiritual Story Thing
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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Break Need Next One Out Put Record Tour Work
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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Before Business Certain Father Good Husband Just Learn Rock Star Thing Try
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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Accuracy Stop Computer Memory Million Number Own Perfect Phone Recall Store
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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Annoy Corner Even Every Few Infuriate Kill Live Machine
While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Do Heart Just Make
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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Behave Design Generous Helpful Likeable Person Respect Software User
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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Computer Critical Deeper Human Interact Interface Longer More Sturdily Subtle Survival
When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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Affect Dep Fell Love Music Show Teenager Way
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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Computer Invade Life Live Run
The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Could Fight Lucky Pretty Really Thing

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