Computer 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 COOPERNo matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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 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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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