PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

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?

That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty.To make everything better.

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

He only drinks when he gets depressed, ' said Carrot. 'Why does he get depressed?' 'Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink.

There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.

Professionally, the first time I sang was on 'Alice Upside Down.' It was the first movie that I did, and I had this little mini singing part.

The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.