“To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.”

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.

To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.

In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.

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.

I don’t leave home without my Bible, without my phone, and without my computer.

We’re on the computers, phones and tablets all day long, sometimes you just need to escape from the screens.

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.

I’m a very simple man. You’ve got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off… and the nightmare continues.

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.