Brenda Laurel quotes
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“A design isn't finished until someone is using it.”
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“I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.”
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“Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.”
-- Brenda LaurelSource : Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.102, MIT Press
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“You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.”
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“I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.”
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“Every intelligent being enjoys complexity.”
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“When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.”
-- Brenda LaurelSource : Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.11, MIT Press
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“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”
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“Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.”
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“Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’”
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“As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.”
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“Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.”
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“Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.”
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