December 2011
96 posts
November 2011
66 posts
Engineers do not build bridges. They design them. Ironworkers build them.
– Alan Cooper
Engineering” is a design discipline. If you write code that ships, that is...
– Alan Cooper
Would you rather have a successful product or be able to predict the exact day...
– Alan Cooper
Deadlines are for atoms; Qualitylines are for bits
– Alan Cooper
The more detailed the rules are, the easier they are to break.
– Alan Cooper
Some of the most successful websites in history are ugly; some of the most...
– Alan Cooper
Building a post-industrial team is one hell of a lot harder than building a...
– Alan Cooper
When people say ‘I live in the world of reality’ what they mean is...
– Alan Cooper
When you face a choice between Option “A” and Option...
– Alan Cooper
Seek to be great, instead of profitable. Seek to liberate, instead of control....
– Alan Cooper
Creative workers are not motivated by money, directed by authority, or impressed...
– Alan Cooper
I’d rather rock like a think star than think like a rock star.
– Alan Cooper
It makes me smile to think that chickens are the evolutionary end point of...
– Alan Cooper
Never apologize for bad software.
– Alan Cooper
Better is not the enemy of good. Not taking responsibility is the enemy of...
– Alan Cooper
When your in-laws come to visit, they don’t check the really heavy...
– Alan Cooper
No matter how cool your interface, less of it would be better.
– Alan Cooper
Software is not built with “resources”, nor is it built with...
– Alan Cooper
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall...
– Greek proverb
It’s very easy for me to write a blogpost. All I do is write it four...
– Alan Cooper