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.

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

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

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

If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.

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

I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.