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

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.

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.

Do the small things with a great and a clean heart, even out of your least, and you never did a small thing at all, for the heart defines it all!

Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man’s prayers matched by his deeds.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Our experiences tend to support our belief systems.

I like carrots that have got a bit of personality and have three or four legs! They may look weird but they taste fantastic.