I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
ALAN COOPERForm follows function straight to hell.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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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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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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