English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
ALAN COOPERNo matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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It’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.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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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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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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