An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

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.

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.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.

In every crisis there is a message.

Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent.