We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
ALAN COOPERDesign principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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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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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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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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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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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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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.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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