I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

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?

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

I work to stay alive.

The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

I was different and people made fun of me.

Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures.

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

You'll get back to where you came from.