You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Market segmentation s a natural result of the vast differences among people.

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

AS for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.

Knowing how people will use something is essential.

I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

If you think the products don't match what you want from a product, don't buy it.

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Scientists are always skeptics.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.

Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

For it is in giving that we receive.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.