It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.

Never present a power-user option in such a way that normal users must learn all about it in order to know they don't need to use it.

Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.

If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.

As for the Sun mouse, I'm not a big multi-button mouse fan, because I just can't remember which button to push when. I rather like the Macintosh system of using four modifier keys with the mouse.

If you have a vision and there is no job title for it yet. That's a vision right there!

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

I'm not going to tell [Vladimir] Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do?

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business.

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.