Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

There is no unique picture of reality.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

People love photos. Photos originally weren’t that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

People only see what they are prepared to see.