Paul Dourish quotes

“Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.”
-- Paul Dourish

Source : Paul Dourish (2004). “Where the Action is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction”, p.1, MIT Press

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“The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them”
-- Paul Dourish

Source : Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell (2011). “Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing”, p.40, MIT Press

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“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

“One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”

Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.

“If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.”

“When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.”

“Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.”

“Writing is fifty years behind painting.”

Source : Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.131, Wesleyan University Press

“If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.”

“I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.”

Source : "Alexander Siddig Exclusive Interview; The CAIRO TIME Star Opens Up About DEEP SPACE NINE, MIRAL, His Sci-Fi Obsession, More". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. August 9, 2010.

“The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.”