Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Form follows function straight to hell.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

If you give up the guilt, that's a huge load off your shoulders.

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.

Never stop trying to impress your partner. If you can both stay in that place, when you really want to show the best of yourselves to each other, relationships can become such a powerful team.

I promise to keep you happy, safe, and in love - for as long as my heart wakes; and as much as you soul takes.

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.