You have great ideas, but the only way you can feel ok about not realizing them is when the only hurdle is yourself.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
— Steve Jobs
The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.
— William Beebe
Would you expect someone to get a good night’s sleep if they were interrupted all night? Then how can you expect someone to get a good day’s work if they are interrupted all day?
Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.
— Joel Spolsky
The artist must actively cultivate that state which most people avoid: the state of being alone.
— James Baldwin
Clifford Stern:
[to his wife] "Honey, you're the one who stopped sleeping with me, ok. It'll be a year come April 20th. I remember the date exactly, because it was Hitler's birthday."
You can have your iPhone 4 in any colour so long as it is black.
— Henry Ford
