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

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.

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

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.

Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!

Every loneliness is a pinnacle

A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever."

I've failed way more than I've succeeded.

guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

I'm not one to be messed with. I can be bad when it needs to happen.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.