A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

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.

Look at the world around you and focus on the possibilities not the problem.

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

Even though we don’t realize it, every moment we begin our adventure in the unknown future of life.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old.

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

A god that does not manifest in reality is indistinguishable from a god that does not exist.

I hope a great young Reagan will emerge.