I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.

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?

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.

I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.