If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

What users want is convenience and results.

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

They would be a duet. They would be happy. What is happy, anyways?

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.

Sometimes the hardest, bravest thing in the world is to let someone love you.

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

I'm sure that a lot of my friends - even though they're curious about the music of nations that are not on their radar - still don't know what Kuwaiti music sounds like.

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.