One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
ALAN COOPERIronically, 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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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.
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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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