Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
ALAN COOPERIt’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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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