Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Form follows function straight to hell.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

Live to fight another day on better legislation.

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit.

We only keep what we lose.

I'm a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan; I would be really annoyed if anyone told me anything about what was going to happen in the last eight episodes.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it. They had to, because the cheese kept floating off in space.

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.