I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Stanislaw Lem

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Elbert Hubbard

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Peter Hammill

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grace under pressure

Ernest Hemingway

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

Leo Tolstoy

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Alice Walker

Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.

Proverb

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

Kevin Costner

Women's intuition wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.

Orson Scott Card

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

George Santayana