Alan Cooper Quotes

What Microsoft is really good at is endlessly iterating and revving - incrementally improving things that already exist - and those things that already exist are generally acquired from the outside.

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• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Done
  • Nothing
  • Over

• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Movie

• My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Music
  • Father
  • Day

• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Second
  • Liked
  • Rembrandt

• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Think
  • Society
  • Change

• I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Forever

• Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Language

• I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Dancing

• I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Love

• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.

  

  Dan Pink
  • School
  • Law
  • Class

• We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Serious
  • Choose

• One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
  • Really
  • Mayor

• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Late

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Good
  • Very
  • Get

• I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones

• People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

  

  Luis von Ahn
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.

  

  Eric Ladin
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• What Microsoft is really good at is endlessly iterating and revving - incrementally improving things that already exist - and those things that already exist are generally acquired from the outside.

  

  Alan Cooper
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