Are you willing to take responsibility for your team's culture or do you treat it like the weather - something that happens to you?

Good design, when done well, should be invisible.

When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it.

Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.

In all situations where bad design decisions were made, people lacked some information that would have helped them make the right decision.

Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

Some people are so into web standards that they've removed all the tables from their houses

The poster child of Web 2.0 is Flickr.com. Personalization is a key piece of Web 2.0.

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

I would prefer you not to say, "That was the most terribly written piece I've ever read." That would hurt me. But you don't think I'm the best person in the world? Well, alright.

As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.

I went to Congress to change the policies of our country. I did not go to change the behaviors of members of Congress.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

I say long and lean as opposed to tall, because you could be 5 four and look long and lean.