Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

Words have meaning, type has spirit.

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.

Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?

And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

I'd rather suffer 1000 truths than enjoy 1 lie.

Denial is a powerful weapon. My dad taught me mind over matter. No matter how hurt I got, he didn't mind.

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances images. But most of all, I love, love movies.

If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?

There are so many people I would love to meet and say thank you for posting their videos, because hearing their stories and everything comforted me.