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?

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.

Simple design, intense content.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

I would like immortality.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.

I am not religious, but I am spiritual.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.