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.
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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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as 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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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