“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.”

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.

Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.

There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.

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

The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.

English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

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

One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.

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

Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.

In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.

You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!

I’ve often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

I think it gives it a beauty. The individual and handmade will always be worth more than what a computer can do, at least until computers can learn how to make mistakes.

I also love a good cheesy movie, and I’m kind of addicted to my computer.

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

So being around computers from a very early age perhaps I had even subconsciously seen the exponential progression of what was happening with computers.

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

Everybody doesn’t want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.

Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to… We’re all gods.