It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.

It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.

Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

The reality is, sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose, you're never too big to lose, you're never too smart to lose, it happens.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That's for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve.

'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

Whether by pill or invasive surgery, abortion is never good for women.

Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

When in doubt, use Caslon.