The system should treat all user input as sacred.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

What users want is convenience and results.

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night...

although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]

One of the things I keep reminding players is that when you're lost in a fog, you must stick together. Then you don't get lost. If there's a secret about Liverpool, that's it.

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

You can't be passionate when you feel like it. You have to be passionate about your job, product or cause all the time. There's no off switch on a tiger.

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Trying on jeans is my favorite thing. Maybe later I can get a pap smear from an old male doctor.

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.