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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Could Fight Lucky Pretty Really Thing
To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Follow Function Hell Straight
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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Do Heart Just Make
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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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