Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

To the user, the interface is the product.

Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again.

You can never let your data dictate design. If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating.

Every time you make the user make a decision they don’t care about, you have failed as a designer.

Your first try will be wrong. Budget and design for it.

When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.

Never use a warning when you mean undo.

Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical.

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential for making some contribution to humanity, I will comply in spite of being tired.

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.