A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

Design cannot rescue failed content.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?

Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.

I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms.

the only drinking problem I've ever had, is figuring out why I'm still stuck in this salad spinner

When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.

Trade is a proper and decent relationship, with dignity and respect on both sides.

When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

You've got to listen to the universe, to life, to God, whatever you want to call it. Because its going to speak to you.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.