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

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

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?

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

If you find God, you shall be free forever.

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.

Not what we wish but what we need Oh! let your grace supply The good unasked in mercy grant The ill though asked deny.

Who cares if somebody dances better? Doing my very best is rewarding internally.

If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

You see somebody down, that's lonely, take them to lunch. Encourage them.

Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.