There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPERIf you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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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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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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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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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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