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

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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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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. Typography should not vary widely in an interface.

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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.

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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, 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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

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

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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

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You Don't Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!

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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. 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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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. I'm an 'evolve or die' kind of a musician. I think it's cool to try new things.

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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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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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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.

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

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We don't fight about music. We don't fight about artistic direction. The things like that we could fight about, we really don't. We are pretty lucky for that.

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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. 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.

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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

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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. 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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