Everyday people are not very good designers.

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.

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

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.

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.

Help us to be true, Lord. Help us to stand.

The slow dance of synchronicity begins the moment you are born.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.

I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.

I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!