A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
ALAN COOPERA powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
ALAN COOPERPast dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
ALAN COOPERComputer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
ALAN COOPERDefine what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPERYou Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
ALAN COOPERForm follows function straight to hell.
ALAN COOPERI’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
ALAN COOPERRun for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPERBecause computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
ALAN COOPERYou can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
ALAN COOPERThe things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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.
ALAN COOPERIt’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
ALAN COOPERIt has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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 making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
ALAN COOPER