Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Imagination can bring you far. Laziness can also bring you far, far from your goals.

You have to hold on and be patient. Pain lasts for a while, but you must leave room for happiness when you find it.

...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'...Page 100.

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing t

I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.

When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again."

I wasn't sure exactly how prostitutes determined price, but if men bought hookers by the pound, these two would be doing okay.

You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play

Love is a battle, and I plan to go on fighting. To the end.