When I see Facebook, I feel like Howlin' Wolf must have felt when he first heard Elvis. 'They finally taught a white boy to do this.'

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.

Content informs design; design without content is decoration.

Test everything, including assumptions

Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace."

Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You’ll make mistakes along the way, but that’s where growth and forgiveness come in.

Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.

Comments are proof most people don't read the articles.

When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

Money is both a means and a means to an end.

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won't see it.

If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.