Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.
When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.
An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.
I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?
Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.
By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy’s culture. Read it and be proud of those who were on their own front lines of a cruel war.
Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
Hogarth ranks among those pictorial creators who have discovered the expressive force of the brushstroke as well as of color and its harmonies. He makes his entry into art as a reflection of Hals and Velasquez.