-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 2
/
quotes.json
5482 lines (5482 loc) · 274 KB
/
quotes.json
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325
326
327
328
329
330
331
332
333
334
335
336
337
338
339
340
341
342
343
344
345
346
347
348
349
350
351
352
353
354
355
356
357
358
359
360
361
362
363
364
365
366
367
368
369
370
371
372
373
374
375
376
377
378
379
380
381
382
383
384
385
386
387
388
389
390
391
392
393
394
395
396
397
398
399
400
401
402
403
404
405
406
407
408
409
410
411
412
413
414
415
416
417
418
419
420
421
422
423
424
425
426
427
428
429
430
431
432
433
434
435
436
437
438
439
440
441
442
443
444
445
446
447
448
449
450
451
452
453
454
455
456
457
458
459
460
461
462
463
464
465
466
467
468
469
470
471
472
473
474
475
476
477
478
479
480
481
482
483
484
485
486
487
488
489
490
491
492
493
494
495
496
497
498
499
500
501
502
503
504
505
506
507
508
509
510
511
512
513
514
515
516
517
518
519
520
521
522
523
524
525
526
527
528
529
530
531
532
533
534
535
536
537
538
539
540
541
542
543
544
545
546
547
548
549
550
551
552
553
554
555
556
557
558
559
560
561
562
563
564
565
566
567
568
569
570
571
572
573
574
575
576
577
578
579
580
581
582
583
584
585
586
587
588
589
590
591
592
593
594
595
596
597
598
599
600
601
602
603
604
605
606
607
608
609
610
611
612
613
614
615
616
617
618
619
620
621
622
623
624
625
626
627
628
629
630
631
632
633
634
635
636
637
638
639
640
641
642
643
644
645
646
647
648
649
650
651
652
653
654
655
656
657
658
659
660
661
662
663
664
665
666
667
668
669
670
671
672
673
674
675
676
677
678
679
680
681
682
683
684
685
686
687
688
689
690
691
692
693
694
695
696
697
698
699
700
701
702
703
704
705
706
707
708
709
710
711
712
713
714
715
716
717
718
719
720
721
722
723
724
725
726
727
728
729
730
731
732
733
734
735
736
737
738
739
740
741
742
743
744
745
746
747
748
749
750
751
752
753
754
755
756
757
758
759
760
761
762
763
764
765
766
767
768
769
770
771
772
773
774
775
776
777
778
779
780
781
782
783
784
785
786
787
788
789
790
791
792
793
794
795
796
797
798
799
800
801
802
803
804
805
806
807
808
809
810
811
812
813
814
815
816
817
818
819
820
821
822
823
824
825
826
827
828
829
830
831
832
833
834
835
836
837
838
839
840
841
842
843
844
845
846
847
848
849
850
851
852
853
854
855
856
857
858
859
860
861
862
863
864
865
866
867
868
869
870
871
872
873
874
875
876
877
878
879
880
881
882
883
884
885
886
887
888
889
890
891
892
893
894
895
896
897
898
899
900
901
902
903
904
905
906
907
908
909
910
911
912
913
914
915
916
917
918
919
920
921
922
923
924
925
926
927
928
929
930
931
932
933
934
935
936
937
938
939
940
941
942
943
944
945
946
947
948
949
950
951
952
953
954
955
956
957
958
959
960
961
962
963
964
965
966
967
968
969
970
971
972
973
974
975
976
977
978
979
980
981
982
983
984
985
986
987
988
989
990
991
992
993
994
995
996
997
998
999
1000
[
{
"quote": "Less is more and more is more. It’s the middle that’s not a good place.",
"author": "Paula Scher"
},
{
"quote": "That’s why pro bono work is great. You choose to do it, and if you’re choosing to do it to grow your own work, your deal is essentially that you’re not going to collaborate. You’re going to do the job the way you think the job is gonna be done.",
"author": "Paula Scher"
},
{
"quote": "Better to be tentative than to be recklessly sure—to be an apprentice at sixty, than to present oneself as a doctor at ten.",
"author": "Michel Eyquem de Montaigne"
},
{
"quote": "Don’t you miss doing creative stuff, as an engineer? Don’t you miss the creativity of the art world? You can say: I’m working on an infinite canvas capable of any size and shape, that’s already glowing every color possible into the eyes of just about everyone on the planet. And I get to decide the kind of experience, feeling, and emotion they are going to have. How is that not creative?",
"author": "Natalya Shelburne"
},
{
"quote": "Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’.",
"author": "Achille Castiglioni"
},
{
"quote": "The great thing about personal work is that it can shape your commercial work. Clients see what you create for yourself and that can be the starting point for a new project, which closes the cap between the work you love making and the work you get paid for.",
"author": "Gemma O’Brien"
},
{
"quote": "Work hard and be nice to people. No one is born with the ability, and no one owes you anything. If you want to do something, start small and build it up. Then keep doing it!",
"author": "Jon Hicks"
},
{
"quote": "All the Photoshop filters in the world won’t save a weak design.",
"author": "William Childs"
},
{
"quote": "The time it takes to make a decision increases as the number of alternatives increases.",
"author": "William Edmund Hick"
},
{
"quote": "Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.",
"author": "John Maeda"
},
{
"quote": "You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.",
"author": "George Nelson"
},
{
"quote": "If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.",
"author": "Ralf Speth"
},
{
"quote": "Those who don’t build must burn.",
"author": "Ray Bradbury"
},
{
"quote": "Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.",
"author": "Massimo Vignelli"
},
{
"quote": "The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize, and glean insights that enable him or her to make the invisible visible.",
"author": "Hillman Curtis"
},
{
"quote": "Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.",
"author": "Nicholas Negroponte"
},
{
"quote": "How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but how well we are understood.",
"author": "Andrew Grove"
},
{
"quote": "Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.",
"author": "Charles Eames"
},
{
"quote": "Letterspacing creates speedbumps for the reader.",
"author": "Michael Stinson"
},
{
"quote": "I don’t think of myself as an artist. I know some designers consider themselves such, but I can’t. This is not to say that I don’t hope that our work has artistic merit. Anyway, I never know how someone could proclaim himself or herself to be an ‘artist’; I think it should be a designation best left for others to bestow, much like ‘genius’ and ‘asshole’.",
"author": "Alexander Isley"
},
{
"quote": "Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if one takes time to understand her, there is something beautiful to find, something simple to be loved. But she goes unloved, for being misunderstood.",
"author": "Anthony Liccione"
},
{
"quote": "A good design solves a problem. A bad design creates many.",
"author": "Samadara Ginige"
},
{
"quote": "If you spend an hour now, you can save five later.",
"author": "Rami Hassan"
},
{
"quote": "A portfolio as pretty as pictures is nothing but a tip of the iceberg, the real treasure underlies the ocean.",
"author": "Shawn Lukas"
},
{
"quote": "When typography is on point, words become images.",
"author": "Shawn Lukas"
},
{
"quote": "Much like music, great art is also found in the spaces between your graphic elements.",
"author": "William Childs"
},
{
"quote": "Learning Web Design is like playing video games: You start small and build your character as you progress, then you beat the boss, literally.",
"author": "Ricardo Zea"
},
{
"quote": "Graphic design is building systems.",
"author": "Michael Stinson"
},
{
"quote": "Graphic design is putting a flower pot in a skyscraper",
"author": "@C0D4"
},
{
"quote": "Art is I; science is we.",
"author": "Claude Bernard"
},
{
"quote": "Research not to discover what’s already there, but to discover what’s not.",
"author": "Samadara Ginige"
},
{
"quote": "When it comes to writing code, the number one most important skill is how to keep a tangle of features from collapsing under the weight of its own complexity.",
"author": "John D. Cook"
},
{
"quote": "Instead of asking the user to make a choice up front, maybe we can set a smart default and see if there is high demand after launch for more customization.",
"author": "Rebecca Rolfe"
},
{
"quote": "[Designers’] primary competence lies not in the technicalities of a craft but in the mastery of a process.",
"author": "Ralph Caplan"
},
{
"quote": "Design is a process for making things right, for shaping what people need.",
"author": "Ralph Caplan"
},
{
"quote": "Tech without design is the business’s perdition.",
"author": "Vital Lokossou"
},
{
"quote": "If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.",
"author": "Sir Ken Robinson"
},
{
"quote": "Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.",
"author": "Elon Musk"
},
{
"quote": "A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good. ",
"author": "Martin LeBlanc"
},
{
"quote": "Y’all talk about UX like it’s just another feature. For a user, it literally is the product. Full stop. Everything else is inside baseball.",
"author": "Startup L. Jackson"
},
{
"quote": "Everything we do communicates.",
"author": "Pete Episcopo"
},
{
"quote": "The only 'intuitive' interface is the nipple. After that it’s all learned.",
"author": "Bruce Ediger"
},
{
"quote": "Only show work you like, or you’ll end up being hired to do things you don’t like.",
"author": "Victoria Pater"
},
{
"quote": "If you want to be the designer that stands out of the rest, do something more than just designing. Make an interesting project like for charity, start an agency, hold an exhibition, start a design festival or build a site like Behance. Become interesting.",
"author": "Jennifer Cirpici"
},
{
"quote": "It takes a lot of effort to make something seem effortless.",
"author": "Alexander Isley"
},
{
"quote": "The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.",
"author": "Wim Crouwel"
},
{
"quote": "Advertising is the one industry where all the experts seem to be the people who don’t work in it.",
"author": "William Childs"
},
{
"quote": "Just because it’s simple doesn’t mean it makes sense.",
"author": "Morgan Ashley"
},
{
"quote": "A lot of the things about design that tend to get designers really interested aren’t that important.",
"author": "Michael Bierut"
},
{
"quote": "We need to shift from designing applications to designing implications.",
"author": "Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby"
},
{
"quote": "A good portfolio will get you an interview. A good attitude will get you a job.",
"author": "Marty Amsler"
},
{
"quote": "Design should never be ridden with GGE’s (gratuitous graphic elements).",
"author": "Nadine Buckley"
},
{
"quote": "What’s the hardest thing to communicate? The hardest thing is to communicate.",
"author": "Michael Cina"
},
{
"quote": "Choosing a typeface is an act of subtlety, like casting an actor: the best person to play a gardener is somebody who looks like they might belong outdoors — not somebody who is covered in flowers and shrubbery.",
"author": "Josh Collinsworth"
},
{
"quote": "You do not need to have a great idea before you can begin working; you need to begin working before you can have a great idea.",
"author": "Josh Collinsworth"
},
{
"quote": "Any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself, works counter to the inherent value of design as the primary, underlying matrix of life.",
"author": "Victor Papanek"
},
{
"quote": "Design for many instead of designing for money.",
"author": "Victor Papanek"
},
{
"quote": "You can be misunderstood exactly once. After that, you are not being misunderstood; you are communicating poorly.",
"author": "Josh Collinsworth"
},
{
"quote": "If you haven’t surprised yourself yet, you haven’t done enough sketching.",
"author": "Josh Collinsworth"
},
{
"quote": "Just let the type just do what it does.",
"author": "Michael Stinson"
},
{
"quote": "Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed… but dull?",
"author": "Bill Bernbach"
},
{
"quote": "I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.",
"author": "Bill Bernbach"
},
{
"quote": "Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorage never emerged from a formula.",
"author": "Bill Bernbach"
},
{
"quote": "We are so busying measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.",
"author": "Bill Bernbach"
},
{
"quote": "A brand is the promise of an experience.",
"author": "Alexander Isley"
},
{
"quote": "Not everyone notices the flowers you plant, but everyone will notice the fire you start.",
"author": "Unknown"
},
{
"quote": "Most of what we see that we call information doesn’t inform, and most questions do not have a quest.",
"author": "Richard Saul Wurman"
},
{
"quote": "If it sounds good, you’ll hear it. If it looks good, you’ll see it. If it’s marketed right, you’ll buy it. But if it’s real, you’ll feel it.",
"author": "Kid Rock"
},
{
"quote": "Design is more about the process than it is about the resulting prettiness.",
"author": "Melissa Sisco"
},
{
"quote": "When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.",
"author": "Randall Munroe"
},
{
"quote": "If I do my job well, the identity program will also clean up the image of the company, position it as being contemporary and keep it from ever looking dated.",
"author": "Saul Bass"
},
{
"quote": "Innovation leads one to see the new in the old and distinguishes the ingenious from the ingenuous.",
"author": "Paul Rand"
},
{
"quote": "Design is everywhere. From the dress you’re wearing to the smartphone you’re holding, it’s design.",
"author": "Samadara Ginige"
},
{
"quote": "Good design is in all the things you notice. Great design is in all the things you don’t.",
"author": "Wim Hovens"
},
{
"quote": "Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it’s made.",
"author": "Jonathan Ive"
},
{
"quote": "Complexity is the enemy of reliability.",
"author": "Kyle Matthew Hansen"
},
{
"quote": "Work your ass off. Don’t be an asshole.",
"author": "Stefan Sagmeister"
},
{
"quote": "If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.",
"author": "Michelangelo"
},
{
"quote": "Don’t explain why it works; explain how you use it.",
"author": "Steven Brust"
},
{
"quote": "To see takes time.",
"author": "Georgia O’Keeffe"
},
{
"quote": "There is no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.",
"author": "Martin Scorsese"
},
{
"quote": "Nobody ever get fired for running an A\/B test.",
"author": "Chad Mazzola"
},
{
"quote": "Eloquence is vehement simplicity.",
"author": "Richard Cecil"
},
{
"quote": "Theory can blind observation.",
"author": "Carol Gilligan"
},
{
"quote": "Where I come from, gettin’ visual is habitual.",
"author": "GZA"
},
{
"quote": "All things are designed, just some things more thoughtfully than others.",
"author": "Arman Nobari"
},
{
"quote": "If we have trouble using something then it’s probably because that thing is badly designed, rather than us being stupid.",
"author": "Dmitry Fadeyev"
},
{
"quote": "Man up, admit it isn’t good enough, and fix it now.",
"author": "Robert Nealan"
},
{
"quote": "Design is the body language of your marketing. Don’t slouch.",
"author": "Mark King"
},
{
"quote": "In the presence of good rationale, maintainers should be willing to change their mind often.",
"author": "Havoc Pennington"
},
{
"quote": "Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most amazing technology in the world, but if it’s not put in a form that’s useful and desirable, you won’t be successful.",
"author": "Robert Brunner"
},
{
"quote": "You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.",
"author": "Neil Gaiman"
},
{
"quote": "The whole essence of good drawing—and of good thinking, perhaps—is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.",
"author": "Chuck Jones"
},
{
"quote": "To ignore social media would be like early man ignoring fire.",
"author": "Barry Roos"
},
{
"quote": "A good designer finds an elegant way to put everything you need on a page. A great designer convinces you half that shit is unnecessary.",
"author": "Mike Monteiro"
},
{
"quote": "Technology makes what was once impossible possible. Design makes it real.",
"author": "Michael Gagliano"
},
{
"quote": "Design is content with intent. Content without intent is noise. Intent without content is decoration.",
"author": "Joe Sparano"
},
{
"quote": "Success finally came when we were able to convince some creative men that good appearance was a salable commodity, that it often cut costs, enhanced a product’s prestige, raised corporate profits, benefited the customer and increased employment.",
"author": "Raymond Loewy"
},
{
"quote": "Write it down. You will lose thoughts, you thought, that you thought.",
"author": "Vanessa Workoff"
},
{
"quote": "Minimalism is not a lack of something. It’s simply the perfect amount of something.",
"author": "Nicholas Burroughs"
},
{
"quote": "Some people want their paychecks and to go home, and that’s fine. You and me, though—we’re gonna work harder than they do. We’ll build things that ensure that entire populations just setting foot on the web for the first time can tap into the collected knowledge of the whole of mankind.",
"author": "Mat Marquis"
},
{
"quote": "You don’t have to be 'a creative' to be creative.",
"author": "Drory Ben-Menachem"
},
{
"quote": "If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.",
"author": "Jeff Bezos"
},
{
"quote": "Elegance is not the abundance of simplicity. It is the absence of complexity.",
"author": "Alex White"
},
{
"quote": "We read best what we read most.",
"author": "Zuzana Licko"
},
{
"quote": "Don’t let your design resist your readers. Don’t let it stand in the way of what they want to do: read.",
"author": "Steve Krug"
},
{
"quote": "Easy is not to be underestimated. Easy taps the pool of talent and ideas out there that were turned off by hard.",
"author": "Chris Anderson"
},
{
"quote": "Why expect spec work from a graphic designer when you don’t expect the same from a dentist?",
"author": "Samadara Ginige"
},
{
"quote": "Wonderfully designed > beautifully designed. Any day.",
"author": "Daniel Burka"
},
{
"quote": "It’s not uncommon for designers to confuse a beautiful looking product with one that works beautifully.",
"author": "Braden Kowitz"
},
{
"quote": "Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity. ",
"author": "Aaron Schwartz"
},
{
"quote": "Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.",
"author": "Walker Evans"
},
{
"quote": "Design is crucially important. We can’t have advances in technology any longer, unless design is integrated from the very start.",
"author": "John Underkoffler"
},
{
"quote": "A graphic designer is a machine that turns coffee into beautiful, functional imagery.",
"author": "Lisa Manson"
},
{
"quote": "Instead of shooting arrows at somebody else’s target… I make my own target around wherever my arrow has happened to have landed.",
"author": "Brian Eno"
},
{
"quote": "The medium is the message.",
"author": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"quote": "As long as there are people, there will be user experience, and user interface designers.",
"author": "Steve McGarry"
},
{
"quote": "Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.",
"author": "Scott Adams"
},
{
"quote": "Tell it like it is, in a way they want to hear it.",
"author": "Wihan Meerholz"
},
{
"quote": "To create anything–whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom–is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.",
"author": "Tom Bissel"
},
{
"quote": "Never let the blood show.",
"author": "Charles Eames"
},
{
"quote": "Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything you are willing to practice, you can do. ",
"author": "Bob Ross"
},
{
"quote": "If you want a quick logo that has no research, brand definition or storytelling as part of its development, then you are buying ART not DESIGN. Design creates connections.",
"author": "Lisa Manson"
},
{
"quote": "Give a crap. Don’t give a fuck.",
"author": "Karen McGrane"
},
{
"quote": "Every new thing you make will be (should be) the nicest thing you’ve made so far, because you’re learning and getting better with each and every new project.",
"author": "Jessica Hische"
},
{
"quote": "The most valued products will be designed to live beyond the device, context, or technology they were originally intended for.",
"author": "Stephanie Rieger"
},
{
"quote": "Good design is finding a solution to a problem. Great design is finding the simplest solution to the same problem.",
"author": "Nicholas Petersen"
},
{
"quote": "When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture…",
"author": "Seth Godin"
},
{
"quote": "I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you’re not that good. You just reached the level here. I don’t ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.",
"author": "Quentin Tarantino"
},
{
"quote": "I go to work every morning with the possibility that I might learn something I don’t already know… You should look at every problem and think, ‘what can I learn by doing this?’ And if you think you can learn nothing, forget about doing it.",
"author": "Milton Glaser"
},
{
"quote": "When I am down, [I am] not good at any work, including design work.",
"author": "Stefan Sagmeister"
},
{
"quote": "Design has to work, art does not.",
"author": "Donald Judd"
},
{
"quote": "Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.",
"author": "Osho"
},
{
"quote": "Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.",
"author": "Christoph Niemann"
},
{
"quote": "Buy the best and you only cry once.",
"author": "Miles Redd"
},
{
"quote": "I think design would be better if designers were much more skeptical about its applications. If you believe in the potency of your craft, where you choose to dole it out is not something to take lightly.",
"author": "Frank Chimero"
},
{
"quote": "Whoever tells the best story wins.",
"author": "Annette Simmons"
},
{
"quote": "The next time you’re caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.",
"author": "Daniel Burka"
},
{
"quote": "I like jumping back and forth between a few different things to let my subconscious chew on one problem while my conscious works on something else.",
"author": "Loren Brichter"
},
{
"quote": "If everyone likes your design, it’s banal. Mediocrity shirks offense. Art dares it.",
"author": "Jeffrey Zeldman"
},
{
"quote": "Designers tend to overvalue differentiation and originality. We are taught this in design school. The best solutions are created ex nihilo, break new ground, resemble nothing else in the world. Everyone wants to stand out, or else what’s the point? But this isn’t true. Most people don’t want to stand out. They want to fit in. More precisely, they want to fit in with the people they like, or want to be like.",
"author": "Michael Bierut"
},
{
"quote": "In design, there is no such thing as 'rules'. There is however, common sense.",
"author": "Ken Dyment"
},
{
"quote": "If I forget the words, they weren’t very memorable in the first place.",
"author": "Willie Nelson"
},
{
"quote": "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.",
"author": "Sherlock Holmes"
},
{
"quote": "Ideas trump aesthetics. Convenience trumps UI. Content trumps platforms.",
"author": "Marc-Oliver Gern"
},
{
"quote": "When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.",
"author": "God (from Futurama)"
},
{
"quote": "No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.",
"author": "Terry Pratchett"
},
{
"quote": "It’s OK to do stupid things, except when you notice them.",
"author": "Kenny Shopsin"
},
{
"quote": "I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.",
"author": "Walt Disney"
},
{
"quote": "Usage is like oxygen for ideas.",
"author": "Matt Mullenweg"
},
{
"quote": "If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you’ll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job.",
"author": "Alexander Isley"
},
{
"quote": "To create great work, here’s how you must spend your time:",
"author": "George Lois"
},
{
"quote": "Rejection process is not fun. It’s the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.",
"author": "Jonah Lehrer"
},
{
"quote": "Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.",
"author": "D.H. Lawrence"
},
{
"quote": "We are only three decades into one of the most important revolutions the world has ever seen. In design development terms, that is a mere blink.",
"author": "Rachel Hinman"
},
{
"quote": "Communication that doesn’t take a chance doesn’t stand a chance.",
"author": "Carlos Segura"
},
{
"quote": "Web design has a bad reputation for being stylistically trendy and same-looking. Some guy does a parallax scrolling site, and now your boss wants you to add that to your corporate PR website for some reason. Glossy buttons, Gaussian Noise, linen texture, new things that look fake-old, then back to minimalism and flat colors as a reaction to the glossy noisy textured fake-old stuff.",
"author": "Jonas Downey"
},
{
"quote": "You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.",
"author": "Andy Warhol"
},
{
"quote": "Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.",
"author": "Raymond Joseph Teller"
},
{
"quote": "Modern typographic axioms:",
"author": "Lucian Bernhard"
},
{
"quote": "If you see a snake, just kill it. Don’t appoint a committee on snakes.",
"author": "H. Ross Perot"
},
{
"quote": "Sure, our competitors will laugh. Let them laugh so hard that they cannot breathe.",
"author": "Sam Ward"
},
{
"quote": "If all else fails, [working harder than anyone else] is the greatest competitive advantage of any career.",
"author": "John C Jay"
},
{
"quote": "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.",
"author": "Confucius"
},
{
"quote": "Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.",
"author": "Brandon Mull"
},
{
"quote": "Information is cheap, meaning is expensive.",
"author": "George Dyson"
},
{
"quote": "Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.",
"author": "Peter Bilak"
},
{
"quote": "Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.",
"author": "John Gruber"
},
{
"quote": "There is a very fine line between stupid and clever.",
"author": "David St. Hubbins"
},
{
"quote": "To clarify, add detail. Imagine that, to clarify, add detail. Clutter and overload are not attributes of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don’t start throwing out information, instead fix the design.",
"author": "Edward Tufte"
},
{
"quote": "Great ideas, like babies, are often conceived after a few glasses of wine.",
"author": "Sharon Moore"
},
{
"quote": "Design in the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.",
"author": "Doug Cranmer"
},
{
"quote": "Having a style is like being in jail.",
"author": "Anthon Beeke"
},
{
"quote": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.",
"author": "Helen Keller"
},
{
"quote": "No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible.",
"author": "Bob Gill"
},
{
"quote": "When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.",
"author": "Linda Naiman"
},
{
"quote": "The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.",
"author": "David Ogilvy"
},
{
"quote": "The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.",
"author": "Chuck Close"
},
{
"quote": "Design works best when it gets out of the user’s way.",
"author": "Neil Gajera"
},
{
"quote": "If there is one word I’d like to remove from any conversation about design, it’s 'pretty.'",
"author": "Aarron Walter"
},
{
"quote": "People don’t use a product because of the great design; great design helps them use the product.",
"author": "Viran Anuradha Dayaratne"
},
{
"quote": "Design is about enabling ideas, processes and products: making them approachable, usable, desireable and memorable.",
"author": "Jay Dutta"
},
{
"quote": "If a design can be refined, without disturbing its image, it seems reasonable to do so. A logo, after all, is an instrument of pride and should be shown at its best.",
"author": "Paul Rand"
},
{
"quote": " To push the boundaries, you need to know where the edges are.",
"author": "Mark Boulton"
},
{
"quote": "Good Design:",
"author": "Eliot Noyes"
},
{
"quote": "Passion, dedication, and silly lists of what designers need are what designers need.",
"author": "Arman Nobari"
},
{
"quote": "Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.",
"author": "Arman Nobari"
},
{
"quote": "Thirty spokes meet in the hub,\nbut the empty space between them\nis the essence of the wheel.",
"author": "Lao Tse"
},
{
"quote": "It’s all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.",
"author": "David Hockney"
},
{
"quote": "One paints with one’s head, not one’s hand.",
"author": "Michalangelo"
},
{
"quote": "I don’t want something special. I want something beautifully plain.",
"author": "Anne Lamott"
},
{
"quote": "A good design is driven by needs and defined by constraints.",
"author": "Astik Pant"
},
{
"quote": "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.",
"author": "Georgia O’Keeffe"
},
{
"quote": "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.",
"author": "Steve Jobs"
},
{
"quote": "Every great design begins with an even better story.",
"author": "Lorinda Mamo"
},
{
"quote": "We make the whole widget.",
"author": "Steve Jobs"
},
{
"quote": "Testing one user early in the project is better than testing fifty near the end.",
"author": "Steve Krug"
},
{
"quote": "Typography is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.",
"author": "Steve Byers"
},
{
"quote": "The difference between a weed and a flower is a judgement.",
"author": "Wayne Dyer"
},
{
"quote": "Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.",
"author": "Ferdinand A. Porsche"
},
{
"quote": "Web design is responsive design. Responsive web design is web design, done right.",
"author": "Andy Clarke"
},
{
"quote": "Discontentment and reiteration are vital to good design.",
"author": "Sammuel Nevarez"
},
{
"quote": "Most companies are looking to 'wow' with their products, when in reality what they should be looking for is an 'of course' reaction from their users.",
"author": "Christian Lindholm"
},
{
"quote": "A design is a designer’s mind in a suit.",
"author": "Nasa Munir"
},
{
"quote": "The only way to be creative over time — to not be undone by our expertise — is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don’t fully understand.",
"author": "Jonah Lehrer"
},
{
"quote": "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.",
"author": "John Wanamaker"
},
{
"quote": "Like McDonalds proves, popular doesn’t necessarily mean good. I’m not particularly interested in what’s popular; I’m much more interested in what’s good.",
"author": "Kris Sowersby"
},
{
"quote": "Ability proceeds from a fusion of skills, knowledge, understanding and imagination, consolidated by experience.",
"author": "Jonathan Rez"
},
{
"quote": "Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.",
"author": "Ron Swanson"
},
{
"quote": "It’s extremely difficult to be simultaneously concerned with the end-user experience of whatever it is that you’re building and the architecture of the program that delivers that experience.",
"author": "James Hague"
},
{
"quote": "All the magic, be it in code or design, starts with a clear mind, pen and a blank paper.",
"author": "Brian Wangila"
},
{
"quote": "Design is to invent with intent. If you take away the ‘invent’ bit, you have an engineer. If you take away the ‘intent’ bit, you have an artist.",
"author": "Rebecca Reubens"
},
{
"quote": "The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.",
"author": "Milton Glaser"
},
{
"quote": "They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they’d be their own clients.",
"author": "Rudy VanderLans"
},
{
"quote": "If a feature or product were legitimately easy the user would not be writing in to support about how stuck they are. Sure, some percentage of users will find questions to ask about any interface. But do you want to start the conversation by assuming the user falls into that percentage? You venture to learn much more if you assume the software is wrong, not the user.",
"author": "Andrew Spittle"
},
{
"quote": "Best thing about creating something is that it starts living it’s own life. ",
"author": "Hristo Panayotov"
},
{
"quote": "The difference between an artist and a graphic designer. One says 'it’s finished when I feel it’s finished' the other says 'I will have this by the 30th.'",
"author": "Jay Benjamin"
},
{
"quote": "Even large companies need small logos.",
"author": "Tanner Christensen"
},
{
"quote": "[If] people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient, or just happier, the designer has succeeded.",
"author": "Henry Dreyfuss"
},
{
"quote": "There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I’m a working man. Perhaps I’m luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.",
"author": "Saul Bass"
},
{
"quote": "Experience has shown that our best customers are ones who have as much respect for our time as we have for theirs.",
"author": "Alex King"
},
{
"quote": "Some people say design is about solving problems. Obviously designers solve problems but so do dentists. Design is about cultural invention.",
"author": "Jack Schulze"
},
{
"quote": "I find that when someone’s taking time to do something right in the present, they’re a perfectionist with no ability to prioritize, whereas when someone took time to do something right in the past, they’re a master artisan of great foresight.",
"author": "Randall Munroe"
},
{
"quote": "You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.",
"author": "Philip Glass"
},
{
"quote": "It doesn’t matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don’t question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not – his cakes are delicious and that’s all that matters.",
"author": "Sonia Rykiel"
},
{
"quote": "Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.",
"author": "Wim Crouwel"
},
{
"quote": "Use two typeface families maximum. OK, maybe three.",
"author": "Timothy Samara"
},
{
"quote": "Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.",
"author": "Leo Burnett"
},
{
"quote": "I am.",
"author": "Robert Brownjohn (when asked What is graphic design?)"
},
{
"quote": "Users will tell you what they think they want.\nUsers will tell you what they think you want to hear.\nUsers will tell you what they think sounds good.\nUsers will not tell you what you need to know.\nYou have to watch them to discover that.",
"author": "Adam Judge"
},
{
"quote": "Good designers are praised for their technique, great designers for their impact.",
"author": "Tate Linden"
},
{
"quote": "Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.",
"author": "Sara Genn"
},
{
"quote": "It’s strange, I’ve seen colours at times that when I’ve gone back to check on them, they’ve vanished…",
"author": "William Percy Weston"
},
{
"quote": "There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it.",
"author": "Jonathan Hoefler"
},
{
"quote": "Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.",
"author": "Cecil B. DeMille"
},
{
"quote": "Descriptions are like skirts, they should be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep things interesting.",
"author": "Gidsy.com"
},
{
"quote": "… try to absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is essentially your own.",
"author": "Bruce Lee"
},
{
"quote": "If you are on Craigslist to get a sofa, and you see one for free. You think there’s something tragically wrong with it – maybe there are bedbugs. But if you see a sofa on there for $2,500, you think ‘oh man, that sofa must be amazing’. It’s the same thing with art – you set your own value.",
"author": "Jessica Hische"
},
{
"quote": "Orient your UI around the job to be done — around the problem — and not the person. Then people who have that problem can fall in love with your product because it makes the problem go away, whether they are the first in line or the last person to hear about it.",
"author": "Ryan Singer"
},
{
"quote": "The best way to find any and all errors is to publish your work.",
"author": "Dan Vore"
},
{
"quote": "There is an unmistakeable difference between a bag of rabbit parts and a rabbit.",
"author": "Ryan Nance"
},
{
"quote": "Creativity is magical, but is not magic.",
"author": "Charles Limb"
},
{
"quote": "IDEA BY SELF IS COLD. JUST SIT THERE. DO NOTHING.",
"author": "FAKEGRIMLOCK"
},
{
"quote": "I for one absolutely and unequivocally refuse to be bullied about by a thing’s capacity to absorb light. There is nothing less appealing than a color fraught with meaning – the very notion is boisterous, inappropriate, and marked by the dreariest sort of longing.",
"author": "Fran Lebowitz"
},
{
"quote": "To attempt mastery of everything inevitably makes us mediocre in many areas. ",
"author": "Simon Collison"
},
{
"quote": "I shall sing that first line twice, and perhaps if I sing it very quickly, I shall find myself singing the third and fourth lines before I have time to think of them, and that will be a Good Song.",
"author": "Winnie The Pooh"
},
{
"quote": "Designers must be stewards of design rather than dictators.",
"author": "Cassie McDaniel"
},
{
"quote": "Practicality is the serial killer of dreams.",
"author": "Rasha Hamdan"
},
{
"quote": "Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.",
"author": "Davey Coleman"
},
{
"quote": "Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.",
"author": "Steve Jobs"