Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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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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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 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.
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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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