As for the Sun mouse, I'm not a big multi-button mouse fan, because I just can't remember which button to push when. I rather like the Macintosh system of using four modifier keys with the mouse.

The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.

Never present a power-user option in such a way that normal users must learn all about it in order to know they don't need to use it.

Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.

It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.

Oh my beloved friend! In your mirror, I see my reflection again and again.

I do not trust the truth. It shifts into reality.

In a world full of pebbles dare to be a diamond.

Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.

It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.

Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.

Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?

I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life.

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.