I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do.

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?

You can only live one day at a time.

Theory is like a book.It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.

Really annoys me any time I see Asian fusion too. Asia is a big place; which Asian are you talking about? You notice it's never Uzbek or Tajik food. It's Thai, and it's generally insulting.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that.

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

I'm not sure if I'm most happy when I'm comfortable and content or when I'm pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.