I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

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.

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?

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

We do not admire their president.We know why the White House is white.We do not find their children irresistible

I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.

..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.

Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

There is a big difference between manslaughter and first-degree murder.

The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.