I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

Design cannot rescue failed content.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?

Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.

I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw...

Getting caught up in someone else's dream is like a drug. Sometimes you have to go cold turkey. ~ Susan J. McIntire

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

Time will be your friend or your enemy; it will promote you or expose you.

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

The bass and drums are the engine, and the key to good bass playing is it's not what you play, it's what you DON'T play that counts. You leave the spaces, they're more important than anything.