If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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