The system should treat all user input as sacred.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

The system should treat all user input as sacred.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Right now computers which are supposed to be our servant are oppressing us.

If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

I take it to heart that, for example, there aren't enough funds for AIDS research, but people pay 20 times the value of an item of clothing.

In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were trying to bring both law and justice into contempt. The situation afforded us an opportunity to show to the public whether we were trying to bring law into contempt or whether others were doing so.

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them.

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

Gratitude is the spirit of graceful sacred-existence.

It's always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It's a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community?

Well, I don't think so, because the president and members of Congress and governors have the same constituents. It's the American people who are hurting.

If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.

It's OK to have a little bit of curve.

Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I photographed them as well. So those were my first pictures.

We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It's not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species.

For me, one of the most beautiful and rewarding aspects of serial reality TV is that characters can move freely along a spectrum of heroism and villainy.

As a general rule, if you are prone to melodramatic meltdowns, please avoid purchasing a webcam for any reason.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.