Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.

Listen to your customers, not your competitors.

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.

Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.

People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are so successful.

Life is a bit hard sometimes, and sometimes you have to step up and fight fights that you never signed up for.

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

Good software, like wine, takes time.

Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly licking its chops.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married

Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment.

A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

I made a creativity out of that messiness.

To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.

I've lost some friends. A lot of the girls.

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.