"Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more."

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

Paul Dourish

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“In general all celebrities, no matter how they became a celebrity, or if they're an actor or singer or a model, whatever it is - that people are people and people have problems and there's nothing wrong with that at all.”
“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.”

Source : "Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective", Vol. 1, Issues 7-12, p. 47, 1978.
“...if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.”
“When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dracula". TV Series "Dracula" ("A Whiff of Sulfur", 2013), www.imdb.com. 2013–2014.
“You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.”
“I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.”
“A lot of my work deals with this emotion of discouragement or fear, and this emotion cannot be approached without humor because then things become indigestible. You don't want to eat them; you don't want to be in contact with them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, donâ€™t hold back. Then the moment you think youâ€™ve been bold, be bolder. We are all alive today, ever so briefly here now, not then, not ago, not in some dreamworld of a hypothetical future. Whatever you do, you must make it contemporary. Make it matter now. You must give us a new path to tread, even if it carries the footfalls of old soles. You must not be immune to the weird urgency of today.”

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