If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Form follows function straight to hell.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

In the non-dual state, God, soul and universe are essentially one absolute system which is all-pervading, uncreated, self-luminous and eternal.

Dear Lover...you are the only man, who never hurt me, but broke my heart.

I have had my vision.

We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear to us, but as they really are.

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!