“You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.”

We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.

Form follows function straight to hell.

A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.

We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.

My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.

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

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

If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’

Typography should not vary widely in an interface.

Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.

When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.

It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

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

I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.

As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.

I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again.

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he’s overcharging you.

To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.

For all we know, we know nothing.

This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.