Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.

Good design means as little design as possible.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.

Marriage is a full time job

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Our job on earth isn't to criticize, reject, or judge. Our purpose is to offer a helping hand, compassion, and mercy. We are to do unto others as we hope they would do unto us.

General consultant to mankind.

My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.