If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

What users want is convenience and results.

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Often, we only dream of something but do not fulfill our purpose and that is because we do not know how to go from dream to its fulfilment

I am condemned to a theatrical destiny.

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

Love is an energy that is addictive, contagious and free. Earn it, chase it, give it to those in need.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow.

God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.

What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?