“Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.”

More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with users’ needs. They must support relationships and activities that enrich the users’ experiences.

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

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

The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do.

I don’t know technology and engineering. I don’t know accounting.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can’t carry you through.

There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine…) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

Engineering is too important to wait for science.

The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.

I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody’s going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there’s also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.