One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
ALAN COOPERWhen 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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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 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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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