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 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
-
-
Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPER -
Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
ALAN COOPER -
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.
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 -
If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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 -
We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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 -
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 -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
ALAN COOPER -
Form follows function straight to hell.
ALAN COOPER -
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
ALAN COOPER -
Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
ALAN COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER






