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 COOPERTo 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 COOPERIf you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
ALAN COOPERI’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
ALAN COOPERTypography should not vary widely in an interface.
ALAN COOPERYou Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
ALAN COOPERIf we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
ALAN COOPERA powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
ALAN COOPERIn 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.
ALAN COOPERI 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.
ALAN COOPERTo our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
ALAN COOPERIf you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
ALAN COOPERBecause computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
ALAN COOPERMen do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
ALAN COOPERJust how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
ALAN COOPERRun for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPERIronically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
ALAN COOPER