You Don't Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!

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.

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

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

The way to my heart shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.

We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.

I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.

To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

It's always fun to get to do things that stretch you and that you don't get to do a lot, but you never know until you see it.

The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.