I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Hiding and waitingFor the worst Or the end

I remember you from the woods. Where's your sister?""She's busy. Sinning.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

Accept the gift and honor the giver.