Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Form follows function straight to hell.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

(on learning Westlife had beaten Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in an album chart battle in November 2006): There is no God.

There are two types of people in this world: Those who make it their life's work to rid themselves of all pain and suffering... and Artists.

If your morals make you dreary depend on it they are wrong.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

When you think about justifiable anger in one's personal life, we look at those scenarios in everyday life and through our story with a superhero, we heighten them.

Fate is written in the face.

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.

This made no sense to me, probably because I speak English and have never had a head injury.

Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie.