A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

What users want is convenience and results.

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.

Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every time running got difficult I would hang up my shoes and take up knitting.

The most scarce resource we have these days is the idea.

The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation.

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.