To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
ALAN COOPERIt has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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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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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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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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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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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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