Form follows function straight to hell.
ALAN COOPERI’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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