The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
ALAN COOPERTo 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.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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