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Polite software

Polite Software...

  • Polite software is interested in me
  • Polite software is deferential to me
  • Polite software is forthcoming
  • Polite software has common sense
  • Polite software anticipates my needs
  • Polite software is responsive
  • Polite software is taciturn about its personal problems
  • Polite software is well informed
  • Polite software is perceptive
  • Polite software is self-confident
  • Polite software stays focused
  • Polite software is fudgable
  • Polite software gives instant gratification
  • Polite software is trustworthy

/Alan Cooper on polite software, excepted from The Inmates Are Running The Asylum/

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