What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

Words have meaning, type has spirit.

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.

Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?

Leaves lift trees.

You've to stand up for yourself. If you don't, no one else will.

It’s a strange moment when you realize that you don’t want to be alive anymore.

The American Dream became America’s god

Be in something for a reason for seasons weather.

I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.

In my entire career, I've never cried, consistently, through a movie, ever.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

I don't believe in God. I believe something is happening, I'm not sure what it is.