Quotes by Jef Raskin

• 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.
• Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.
• The system should treat all user input as sacred.
• Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
• As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
• An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
• A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
• A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
• Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.