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"Documentation is like sex; when it's good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's better than nothing." - Dick Brandon4
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"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime." - Michael Sinz3
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"XML is like violence – if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it." - Unknown3
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"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses." - Bjarne Stroustrup6
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"No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved." - Mark Gibbs2
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"If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." - E. W. Dijkstra2
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"Not everyone notices the flowers you plant, but everyone will notice the fire you start." - Unknown2
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C. A. R. Hoare
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"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." - Startup L. Jackson2
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"There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. […] The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it." - Joel Spolsky8
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"Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer." - Fred Brooks2
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"You can be misunderstood exactly once. After that, you are not being misunderstood; you are communicating poorly." - Josh Collinsworth5
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Can't tell what my most successful project is...
But according to GitHub Stars, my
most successful project is my RandomQuote Bot (@RandomQuote).
The story behind it is pretty boring:
One day little Skayo thought: "Hey there is no bot on DevRant yet, let's make one!".
Then he began to think: "But what should it do? What would be easy to do for an inexperienced programmer like me?".
Suddenly he got an idea: A Bot that posts a random quote everyday!
Yay!
He instantly started making it.
About a day later, it was finished.
"Let's bring this thing to live", he thought.
And there he was, quickly getting a lot of fucking ++'s...
This bot is like my first born child! I am so proud of him!
And that's the story behind the bot.
Very spectacular, isn't it?4 -
"Using a watermark on your work is like peeing on your belongings so no one will steal them. " - Thomas Amador4
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Hey all! It's a me, Skayo, you might know me from the very early years of devRant, my highlight bot, my random quote bot, the devRant-Community on GitHub or any of the dumb rants and things that I've posted during my time.
Since I'm currently doing a cleanup of my old GitHub repos and this platform is still somewhat active, I have decided to pass on or publish all my projects and things I've created for this community back in the days.
Firstly, I have just published and transferred the source codes for the @highlight bot, the @RandomQuote bot, the @here bot, and some weird bot framework to the devRant-Community GitHub organization (https://github.com/devRant-Communit...).
Feel free to check them out if you've ever wondered what awful, awful code was running in the background all these years!
Secondly, I am offering any of the following to anyone who's interested:
- Ownership of the "devRant-Community" organization on GitHub (https://github.com/devRant-Communit...)
- Credentials for the @RandomQuote devRant user
- Credentials for the @highlight devRant user
- Credentials for the @here devRant user
- Credentials for the @devNews devRant user
- Ownership of the "devNews" Discord server
- Ownership of the "Community Programming Book" Discord server
- Anything else that I've forgotten about, maybe check the comments
If you're interested, message me on Discord "@skayodev" or anywhere else I am active under that alias (f.e. Telegram).
I might do a little background check to prevent abuse and I AM NOT SELLING THEM, just giving them away.
Thank you devRant for all the fun we had together and for introducing me to some of my current best friends :)
A thank you especially to @dfox and @trogus, who have created this amazing platform! (and sorry for all of the bullshit I did back then lol)
I wish you all the best <3
~ Skayorandom skayo random quote highlight bot here devrant-community devnews community programming book farewell skayodev11 -
"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original." - Sir Ken Robinson5
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"I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS." - Larry DeLuca
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The RandomQuote Bot is out of order. No more quotes to post...
Skayo, the owner of this bot, is currently working on an alternative to the quotes. Please be patient!
Thanks,
Skayo11 -
Some of you may have noticed:
I was working on a new devRant bot recently.
But this time it doesn't just post a boring random quote everyday, like my @RandomQuote Bot.
This time it actually reacts to the user!
Basically the bot uses https://carbon.now.sh to generate nice little syntax highlighted code.
I just thought this could be handy in some occasions here on devRant.
Especially in the "Questions" category!
Here's the link to the introduction of the bot:
https://devrant.com/rants/2178718
A lot of work went into this bot, so it would be great to hear what you think about it and if you're planning on using it!
Thanks for reading!97 -
"Redesigning somebody else’s product is always a tricky business. You don’t know why they made the decisions they made. You don’t have the data they have." - Lukas Mathis
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"I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby5
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"a 5% feature (used by less than 5% of all users) is a distraction for all the other users, and is better removed, unless it’s really critical (a small number of users do need to cancel service, for example)." - Neil Hunt8
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"… people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people in book publishing saw it as a weird kind of potential book. But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It’s its own thing." - Paul Ford
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"Learning Web Design is like playing video games: You start small and build your character as you progress, then you beat the boss, literally." - Ricardo Zea7
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"The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything." - Tom Peters13
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"A beef filet cooked for 15 hours by 30 cooks doesn’t necessarily taste better than a cheeseburger." - Oliver Reichenstein5
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill3
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"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. " - Salvador Dali1
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"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law." - Hofstadter’s Law1
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
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"If you find an element of your interface requires instructions, then you need to redesign it." - Dan Rubin5
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"The sharpness of the sword is not in the edge of the blade, but in the hand of the warrior." - Martin Aquino4
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"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!" - Jon Hicks1
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"Minimalism is not a lack of something. It’s simply the perfect amount of something." - Nicholas Burroughs1
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"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." - Hillman Curtis3
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" If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune. " - Bruce Tognazzini1
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"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." - Gemma O’Brien
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"I In fact choose to use a coffeemaker to boil vegetables. Why? Because if I used something else that just makes coffee, my client would ask me 'Can it boil vegetables?'" - Joel Fisher1
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"Listen to your client, take into consideration all of their input, weigh the options, study the details, know the target audience, and then, if necessary, ignore all of it and design what you think will work best." - Von R. Glitschka3
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"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." - Randall Munroe3
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"The space between an idea and a concept is your lips. If you can’t say it out loud you can’t do it. " - Nick Longo
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"Good design is in all the things you notice. Great design is in all the things you don’t." - Wim Hovens1
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"Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. " - Howard Aiken3
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"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
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"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. " - Anne Morrow Lindbergh3
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"Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness. " - Chuck Green1
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"If it were easy to nut out tricky design problems, I might be out of a job. But it’s also true that the cleverness in most lateral design doesn’t come from blindly grinding away at the same concept. When you’re dealing with ideas, it’s rarely a matter of simply putting in more time working. Five minutes can be much more fruitful than five hours." - Rob Morris1
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"A designer who gives her art away, makes no pay. A designer who keeps her art to herself, makes no friends. " - Amber Seree Allen1
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"Advertising is the one industry where all the experts seem to be the people who don’t work in it." - William Childs
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"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." - Mike Monteiro
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"Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal." - Wim Crouwel
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"One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison." - Bertrand Russell2
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"One of the most significant differences between graphic designers and other visual artists is our unhinged love of typography." - Greg Breeding3
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Introducing the random quote bot:
This bot posts a random quote everyday!
>> It is currently WIP!
If you are interested in how it works, just look into the GitHub-Repository:
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"Making good design is easy. It’s polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time." - Stefan G. Bucher1
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"The way to 'get your name out there' is to establish a pattern of excellent work and a reputation for integrity over several years. " - Andy Rutledge5
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"Most of what we see that we call information doesn’t inform, and most questions do not have a quest." - Richard Saul Wurman
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"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." - Jennifer Cirpici
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"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." - Apple Commercial2
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"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." - Paula Scher
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"The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don’t fall down and kill people." - Brian Webb
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"The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know." - Arthur Koestler2
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"Good design is finding a solution to a problem. Great design is finding the simplest solution to the same problem." - Nicholas Petersen2
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"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." - Andy Warhol2
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"It takes confidence to throw work away … When people first start drawing, they’re often reluctant to redo parts that aren’t right … they convince themselves that the drawing is not that bad, really — in fact, maybe they meant it to look that way." - Paul Graham
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"Instead of shooting arrows at somebody else’s target… I make my own target around wherever my arrow has happened to have landed." - Brian Eno2
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"A lot of people in this business develop huge egos. Why? None of us is curing cancer. None of us is saving babies from burning buildings. We’re just a bunch of overpaid knuckleheads who think up nutty stuff for some other knuckleheads’ products." - Paul Howalt2
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"We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success." - Bill Cahan3
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"What problem have you solved, ever, that was worth solving where you knew all the given information in advance? No problem worth solving is like that. In the real world; you have a surplus of information and you have to filter it or; you don’t have sufficient information and you have to go find some." - Dan Meyer2
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"A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology." - Truman Capote1
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"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." - Walt Disney
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"Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything you are willing to practice, you can do. " - Bob Ross1
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"With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine." - Robert Bringhurst
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"The ability to change on a dime is one thing small teams have by default that big teams can never have. This is where the big guys envy the little guys. What might take a big team in a huge organization weeks to change may only take a day in a small, lean organization. That advantage is priceless." - Andrew Hunt
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"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." - Josh Collinsworth1
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"If you see a few lines of atrocious code, you can make a judgement about the programmer. By judging the programmer, you can judge his boss, and by judging his boss you can judge the company. That’s the nature of fractals. " - Des Traynor3
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"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.'" - Jay Benjamin
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"Experience has shown that our best customers are ones who have as much respect for our time as we have for theirs." - Alex King1
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"If all else fails, [working harder than anyone else] is the greatest competitive advantage of any career." - John C Jay
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"Some designers create things to show you what they did. I design things to tell you what I solved." - Brian Yerkes1
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"Design is not about innovation. Design is about communication. Innovation in design is usually a wonderful byproduct or direct result of a particular need. Design that seeks to foremost be innovative will commonly fall apart under its own stylistic girth. " - Jason Santa Maria
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"Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others." - Brandon Mull
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"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition." - Freeman Thomas
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"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." - Kid Rock
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"When the light turns green, you go.
When the light turns red, you stop.
But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?" - Shel Silverstein11 -
"Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’." - Achille Castiglioni1
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"[If] people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient, or just happier, the designer has succeeded." - Henry Dreyfuss
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"Always read with a pen in hand. The pen should be used both to mark the text you want to remember and to write from where the text leaves you. Think of the text as the starting point for your own words. " - Mandy Brown1
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"Rejection process is not fun. It’s the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward." - Jonah Lehrer
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Best/Worst dev experience 2017:
Well I started my DevRant-Stats site and got my RandomQuote bot up and running again (although the quotes aren't as good as before)
I also started a little company with my friend and made some sites for clients.
I reached #13 on Sololearn in Austria! Kinda proud of it.
I learned Lua and Ruby which are one my favorite languages now!
And as always I started some side projects that I've never finished...
Don't remember everything I experienced in 2017 but these are some I won't forget.2 -
"I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect." - Ingmar Bergman4
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"Nobody can tell you if what you’re doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is. " - Hugh Macleod
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"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?" - Natalya Shelburne
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"A lot of companies have tried to support designers by giving them 'a seat at the table.' What this usually means in practice, however, is that a designer is sitting at the table well after the important product decisions that influence the design have been made. This is usually where complicated and muddy designs are born. " - Rebekah Cox1
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"A portfolio as pretty as pictures is nothing but a tip of the iceberg, the real treasure underlies the ocean." - Shawn Lukas
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"It’s quicker to hate on a design picking out all the little things that should have done than to just do something great yourself. " - Tom Watson
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"Being a graphic designer gets you used to rejection of your brilliance. So it’s good practice for dating. " - Heather Phillips1
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"Better to be tentative than to be recklessly sure—to be an apprentice at sixty, than to present oneself as a doctor at ten." - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"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." - Josh Collinsworth
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"Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead." - Marty Neumeier2
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"We need to shift from designing applications to designing implications." - Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby
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"Babe Ruth was a Home Run king but he was also a strike out king. Always go for the fences, even if it means some designs strike out with clients. That’s the only way to hit a home run. " - Alex Zevallos
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"Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity. " - Aaron Schwartz
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"Much like music, great art is also found in the spaces between your graphic elements." - William Childs
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"For me, discomfort is a signal of an exceptional concept. When I’m totally comfortable with a concept, I’ve probably used it fore or seen it somewhere else. Discomfort is almost a prerequisite for a great idea." - Craig Frazier
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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller1
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"I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares. " - Saul Bass2
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"[Designers’] primary competence lies not in the technicalities of a craft but in the mastery of a process." - Ralph Caplan
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"A graphic designer is a machine that turns coffee into beautiful, functional imagery." - Lisa Manson1
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"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." - Quentin Tarantino
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"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." - Bill Bernbach1
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"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." - Milton Glaser1
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"Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising a dinner date to one lucky winner." - Jeffrey Zeldman
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"I say that flat is the new black; that 2D is the new avant-garde; that a surface doesn’t have to be ashamed of being a surface. Technology users of the world, unite: you have nothing to lose but your bas-relief buttons. Let us march forwards together, spurning chrome, into a cleaner, lighter future." - Steven Poole2
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"As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly… yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself." - Stephen Fry1
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"And so we have an issue. A classic impasse. Management wants process. Developers want to build something that works. Designers want to spend time thinking about use cases. What do we do?" - Ben Bleikamp1
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"Leafing through an old magazine, I noticed a small ad about a design course by mail. The headline read, 'Art for pleasure and profit!' I have never found a better definition to describe my profession. Of course, at times it is more the pleasure and less the profit, at times the contrary. But if one of the components were missing, design wouldn’t exist. " - Carlo Angelini
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"Passion, dedication, and silly lists of what designers need are what designers need." - Arman Nobari
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"As long as there are people, there will be user experience, and user interface designers." - Steve McGarry
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"It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people. " - Ellen Lupton
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"I’m creative because I did an icon navigation while everyone else on the planet sticks to words? No, it just means I didn’t want to stick to convention. If anything you can call it rebellious but certainly not creative. " - Paul Scrivens1
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"As with most social phenomena, social-network success tends to happen more organically and unpredictably than anyone is able to artificially create by throwing money at it." - Marco Arment1
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"What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult – that is, revelation of the complex." - Edward Tufte
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"'What is the most treasured and well-used piece of equipment in your studio?' My head." - Alan Fletcher
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"…the wisest course of action is to take your best shot with a prototype, immediately get to market, and iterate quickly. If you wait for ideal circumstances in which you have all the information you need (which is impossible) the market will pass you by. " - Guy Kawasaki1
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"An enterprise’s most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities." - Kun-Hee Lee
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"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." - Alexander Isley
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"Why expect spec work from a graphic designer when you don’t expect the same from a dentist?" - Samadara Ginige1
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"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." - Bob Gill
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@Skayo have made bots like @RandomQuote and @highlight
I don't know how many bots are here on DevRant
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"In business we do a great job learning and teaching the tools for optimizing our results (how to build), but not a lot of time exploring the tools that will help us understand the experience we should be creating (what we should build)." - Kelsey Ruger
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. " - Aristotle1
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"Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read." - Leo Burnett
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"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!" - Jon Hicks
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"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility." - Ellen Lupton
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"Innovation leads one to see the new in the old and distinguishes the ingenious from the ingenuous." - Paul Rand
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"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." - Anthony Liccione
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"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?" - Natalya Shelburne4
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"Stop looking at yourself as a designer, and start thinking of yourself as a deliverer of ideas." - Ståle Melvær1
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"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. " - Pearl S. Buck
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"Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy." - Jan Tschichold
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"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing." - Marc Chagall2
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"It is important not to let the perfect become the enemy of the good, even when you can agree on what perfect is. Doubly so when you can’t. As unpleasant as it is to be trapped by past mistakes, you can’t make any progress by being afraid of your own shadow during design. " - Greg Hudson
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"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." - D.H. Lawrence
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"Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know." - Ron Miriello1
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"Decisions on artwork by committee end up being made on the premise of not turning people off rather than turning people on. " - Paul Attwood
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"Easy is not to be underestimated. Easy taps the pool of talent and ideas out there that were turned off by hard." - Chris Anderson
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"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies, and humors." - George Santayana
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"Stop being afraid of your own pictures, stop worshiping art, treat it the Polish way, condescendingly, make it obedient, and then your originality will release itself in you, new roads will open in front of you and you will gain what is most valuable, most fertile: your own reality. " - Gombrowicz
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"Chances are, unless I’m a designer, I don’t know what I want. All I know is I want something functional that looks good, is comparable with my competitors, and features constant colour schemes for branding. I’ll look at other designs that have already been created and ask for something similar. Hence, it is important that you can take the information I give and help me visualize what it is you think I want." - Aditya Mahesh
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"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." - Wim Crouwel
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"I find going to bed and pulling my imagination over my head often means waking up with a solution to a design problem. That state of limbo, the time between sleeping and waking, seems to allow ideas to somehow outflank the sentinels of common sense. That’s when they can float to the surface. I find ideas often show up in the shower, or while I’m contemplating marmalade and toast and breakfast." - Alan Fletcher
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"When Einstein realized, 'Dear me, this universe with its wonders all adds up to E=mc2?,' he did not stop to think whether this concept would sell better set in Futura or Antikva." - Kari Piippo8
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"There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential." - Pierre Auguste Renoir1
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"The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice." - Josef Muller-Brockmann1
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"A graphic designer is a machine that turns coffee into beautiful, functional imagery." - Lisa Manson2
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"The big problem is most contemporary design practiced today is not really graphic design, but graphic decoration." - Art Chantry
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"Influence is borrowed, inspiration is earned. Create opportunities to earn it, and have a plan to capture it. " - Cameron Moll
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"By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback." - Kent Beck
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"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." - Saul Bass
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"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." - Chuck Jones
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"You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt… or in front of a piece of graphic design." - Stefan Sagmeister
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"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." - Victor Papanek
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"I’ve always considered myself a graphic artists – a draftsman – as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I’m drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch." - Michael Schwab
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"People always ask, 'What do you think of my site?' I want to say back to them, 'Who cares what I think. Does it meet your site requirements? Has it been tested? Has each requirement been validated? Are your site guidelines being adhered to?'" - Kim Krause1
