I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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