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

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.

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.

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

Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

The old blood is bold blood the wide world round.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

It's money. I remember it from when I was single

If we make wholesome, healthy food accessible and affordable for everyone, we make the choice to be healthy an easy one.

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.