Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

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

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.

Knowing how people will use something is essential

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

Let them be what they want to be. Make yourselves what you want to be.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am

Fiction is an improvement on life

I don't think I would have been such a good runner if I hadn't enjoyed it.

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.

We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.

Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting.

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.

I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.