"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration — and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season. In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours."

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

"The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."

"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."

"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows."

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."

"We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one understands anything at all about science and technology."