Quotes by Alan Cooper

Alan Cooper

Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. 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. My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.

Memories

Phones

Thinking

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.

Computer

Sanity

Survival

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Design

Products

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Design

Principles

Simplicity

Form follows function straight to hell.

Form

Function

Hell

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

Father

Husband

Mean

If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible. I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible, 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.

Believer

Break

Impossible

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

Discipline

Example

Technology

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.

Jobs

Might

Thinking

Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

Clubs

Men

Rugby League

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Believer

Boxing

Break

Clubs

Common Sense

Computer

Design

Discipline

Dream

Entrepreneur

Example

Exhausted

Father

Form

Function

Heart

Hell

Home

Husband

Impossible

Jobs

Logic

Lying

Mean

Memories

Men

Might

Mirrors

Noses

People

Phones

Principles

Products

Rocks

Rugby League

Sanity

Simplicity

Successful

Survival

Technology

Teenager

Thinking

Tree

Use

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Quotes by Alan Cooper

Alan Cooper

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.

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Form follows function straight to hell.

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible. I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible, 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.

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

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.

Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

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