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 COOPERMy 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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as 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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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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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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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.
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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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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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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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