We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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