Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

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?

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him.

One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.

The friend that you’re with makes you the friend that you are!

Even in the middle of a noisy mass of students, one girl’s laugh grabbed my attention.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.