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.
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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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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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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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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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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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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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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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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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