Form follows function straight to hell.

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.

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

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.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

The sweeter the fruit a tree bears the greater the number of birds that eat from it.

No martyr is among ye now | Whom you can call your own | So go on your way accordingly | But know you’re not alone.

Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with.

Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.