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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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 you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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