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

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.

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

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.

When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

We’re very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives.

Since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.