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

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

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

The system should treat all user input as sacred.

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

I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.

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