There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPERI 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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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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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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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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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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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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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