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 COOPERAs 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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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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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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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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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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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.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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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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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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