"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." - Bill Gates

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook

"Linux is only free if your time has no value." - Jamie Zawinski

"If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." - Robert Sewell

"QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a sfdeljknesv." - Bill Sempf

"Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption." - Keith Bostic

"Documentation is like sex; when it's good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's better than nothing." - Dick Brandon

"Any product that needs a manual to work is broken." - Elon Musk

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - Edward V Berard

"Writing the first 90 percent of a computer program takes 90 percent of the time. The remaining ten percent also takes 90 percent of the time and the final touches also take 90 percent of the time." - N.J. Rubenking

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

"Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders." - Unknown

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they’re not." - Yogi Berra

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime." - Michael Sinz

"Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork." - Sam Ewing

"Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves." - Alan Kay

"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses." - Bjarne Stroustrup

"XML is like violence – if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it." - Unknown

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems." - Jamie Zawinski

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." - Mitch Ratcliffe

"I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!" - Ovidiu Platon

"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone." - Bjarne Stroustrup

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors." - Phil Karlton

"In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup

"C++ : Where friends have access to your private members." - Gavin Russell Baker

"As a designer, I find it difficult not to judge a book by its cover." - Jordan Manigo

"You should name a variable using the same care with which you name a first-born child." - James O. Coplien

"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 Gibbs

"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." - Christian Lindholm

"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson

"A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good. " - Martin LeBlanc

"Not everyone notices the flowers you plant, but everyone will notice the fire you start." - Unknown

"If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." - E. W. Dijkstra

"All the Photoshop filters in the world won’t save a weak design." - William Childs

"Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing." - Ron Swanson

"Descriptions are like skirts, they should be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep things interesting." - Gidsy.com

"There is an unmistakeable difference between a bag of rabbit parts and a rabbit." - Ryan Nance

"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

"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. Jackson

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." - Rick Osborne

"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 Brooks

"… try to absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is essentially your own." - Bruce Lee

"It takes a lot of effort to make something seem effortless." - Alexander Isley

"The best way to find any and all errors is to publish your work." - Dan Vore

"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." - Jessica Hische

"PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals." - Jon Ribbens

"Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style." - Massimo Vignelli

"You can be misunderstood exactly once. After that, you are not being misunderstood; you are communicating poorly." - Josh Collinsworth

"On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.'" - Charles Babbage

"The time it takes to make a decision increases as the number of alternatives increases." - William Edmund Hick

"Art is I; science is we." - Claude Bernard

"If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design." - Ralf Speth

"A good portfolio will get you an interview. A good attitude will get you a job." - Marty Amsler

"When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through." - Steve Jobs

"How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but how well we are understood." - Andrew Grove

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original." - Sir Ken Robinson

"We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We’ve seen the victims’ agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don’t know what causes it; we don’t really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer — and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply." - Tom Van Vleck

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian Kernighan

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

"The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice." - Richard Moore

"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

"Design for many instead of designing for money." - Victor Papanek

"Only show work you like, or you’ll end up being hired to do things you don’t like." - Victoria Pater

"If you spend an hour now, you can save five later." - Rami Hassan

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " - Donald Knuth

"There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it." - Jonathan Hoefler

"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." - Kris Sowersby

"Even large companies need small logos." - Tanner Christensen

"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 Zea

"Graphic design is putting a flower pot in a skyscraper" - @C0D4

"Practicality is the serial killer of dreams." - Rasha Hamdan

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." - E. W. Dijkstra

"What’s the hardest thing to communicate? The hardest thing is to communicate." - Michael Cina

"Creativity is magical, but is not magic." - Charles Limb

"In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is." - Jeff Atwood

"Designers are crazy and yet sane enough to know where to draw the line." - Benjamin Valbret

"Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem." - John Maeda

"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." - C. A. R. Hoare

"If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius." - Michelangelo

"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half." - John Wanamaker

"Minimalism is not a lack of something. It’s simply the perfect amount of something." - Nicholas Burroughs

"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’." - Alexander Isley

"The only 'intuitive' interface is the nipple. After that it’s all learned." - Bruce Ediger

"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry." - Henry Petroski

"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law." - Hofstadter’s Law

"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible." - David Ogilvy

"Here is one of the few effective keys to the design problem — the ability of the designer to recognize as many of the constraints as possible — his willingness and enthusiasm for working within these constraints. Constraints of price, of size, of strength, of balance, of surface, of time and so forth." - Charles Eames

"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." - Sonia Rykiel

"Less is more and more is more. It’s the middle that’s not a good place." - Paula Scher

"Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear." - Joseph Joubert

"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

"Typography is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters." - Steve Byers

"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

"There is a very fine line between stupid and clever." - David St. Hubbins

"Just because it’s simple doesn’t mean it makes sense." - Morgan Ashley

"Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions." - Nicholas Negroponte

"Good design is in all the things you notice. Great design is in all the things you don’t." - Wim Hovens

"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 Curtis

"It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity." - Andrés Segovia

"Everything we do communicates." - Pete Episcopo

"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." - Chuck Close

"Communication that doesn’t take a chance doesn’t stand a chance." - Carlos Segura

"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." - Rebecca Rolfe

"Web design is responsive design. Responsive web design is web design, done right." - Andy Clarke

"A good design solves a problem. A bad design creates many." - Samadara Ginige

"The most valued products will be designed to live beyond the device, context, or technology they were originally intended for." - Stephanie Rieger

"Advertising is the one industry where all the experts seem to be the people who don’t work in it." - William Childs

"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." - John D. Cook

"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 Munroe

"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." - Winnie The Pooh

"If there is one word I’d like to remove from any conversation about design, it’s 'pretty.'" - Aarron Walter

"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

" To push the boundaries, you need to know where the edges are." - Mark Boulton

"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." - Jonas Downey

"When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all." - God (from Futurama)

"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." - Randall Munroe

"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." - Jonah Lehrer

"The difference between a weed and a flower is a judgement." - Wayne Dyer

"You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking." - George Nelson

"If everyone likes your design, it’s banal. Mediocrity shirks offense. Art dares it." - Jeffrey Zeldman

"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 Collinsworth

"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

"Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal." - Wim Crouwel

"It’s strange, I’ve seen colours at times that when I’ve gone back to check on them, they’ve vanished…" - William Percy Weston

"Good design is finding a solution to a problem. Great design is finding the simplest solution to the same problem." - Nicholas Petersen

"Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything you are willing to practice, you can do. " - Bob Ross

"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." - Daniel Burka

"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

"Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything." - Scott Adams

"Design works best when it gets out of the user’s way." - Neil Gajera

"Complexity is the enemy of reliability." - Kyle Matthew Hansen

"Those who don’t build must burn." - Ray Bradbury

"Interesting things never happen to me. I happen to them." - Bernard Shaw

"It’s OK to do stupid things, except when you notice them." - Kenny Shopsin

"I don’t want something special. I want something beautifully plain." - Anne Lamott

"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

"People don’t use a product because of the great design; great design helps them use the product." - Viran Anuradha Dayaratne

"To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that’s worth remembering." - Thomas Manss

"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

"Users will tell you what they think they want.
Users will tell you what they think you want to hear.
Users will tell you what they think sounds good.
Users will not tell you what you need to know.
You have to watch them to discover that." - Adam Judge

"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." - Steve Jobs

"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." - Sherlock Holmes

"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." - Robert Brunner

"Most of what we see that we call information doesn’t inform, and most questions do not have a quest." - Richard Saul Wurman

"IDEA BY SELF IS COLD. JUST SIT THERE. DO NOTHING." - FAKEGRIMLOCK

"The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that 'sees' in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence." - Martin Gardner

"Letterspacing creates speedbumps for the reader." - Michael Stinson

"Buy the best and you only cry once." - Miles Redd

"Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung." - Sara Genn

"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." - Terry Pratchett

"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." - Loren Brichter

"Research not to discover what’s already there, but to discover what’s not." - Samadara Ginige

"Design has to work, art does not." - Donald Judd

"Experience has shown that our best customers are ones who have as much respect for our time as we have for theirs." - Alex King

"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." - Ryan Singer

"[If] people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient, or just happier, the designer has succeeded." - Henry Dreyfuss

"Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained." - Ferdinand A. Porsche

"Work your ass off. Don’t be an asshole." - Stefan Sagmeister

"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people." - Leo Burnett

"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." - Fran Lebowitz

"Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication." - Peter Bilak

"Instead of shooting arrows at somebody else’s target… I make my own target around wherever my arrow has happened to have landed." - Brian Eno

"All the magic, be it in code or design, starts with a clear mind, pen and a blank paper." - Brian Wangila

"Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity. " - Aaron Schwartz

"I warn you against believing that advertising is a science." - Bill Bernbach

"If I forget the words, they weren’t very memorable in the first place." - Willie Nelson

"To attempt mastery of everything inevitably makes us mediocre in many areas. " - Simon Collison

"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 Meyer

"Don’t explain why it works; explain how you use it." - Steven Brust

"A lot of the things about design that tend to get designers really interested aren’t that important." - Michael Bierut

"Every great design begins with an even better story." - Lorinda Mamo

"A portfolio as pretty as pictures is nothing but a tip of the iceberg, the real treasure underlies the ocean." - Shawn Lukas

"Testing one user early in the project is better than testing fifty near the end." - Steve Krug

"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

"I recently saw another demonstration of graphic design’s ubiquity. Someone had taken a series of photographs of busy streets and then painstakingly removed all the logos, symbols, signs, colours, street names and road markings. In other words, they had removed all the graphic design from these photographs. The results were staggering. A world without graphic design is an unrecognizable world — more alien than all but the most extreme sci-fi imaginings." - Adrian Shaughnessy

"Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done." - Davey Coleman

"Rejection process is not fun. It’s the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward." - Jonah Lehrer

"Don’t let your design resist your readers. Don’t let it stand in the way of what they want to do: read." - Steve Krug

"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." - Linda Naiman

"Usage is like oxygen for ideas." - Matt Mullenweg

"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." - Rachel Hinman

"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

"Great ideas, like babies, are often conceived after a few glasses of wine." - Sharon Moore

"Just let the type just do what it does." - Michael Stinson

"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." - Christoph Niemann

"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." - Milton Glaser

"Man up, admit it isn’t good enough, and fix it now." - Robert Nealan

"When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture…" - Seth Godin

"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

"Designers must be stewards of design rather than dictators." - Cassie McDaniel

"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

"I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don’t understand it and I don’t think anyone else does either." - William Beck

"Design should never be ridden with GGE’s (gratuitous graphic elements)." - Nadine Buckley

"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 Bernbach

"A graphic designer is a machine that turns coffee into beautiful, functional imagery." - Lisa Manson

"Design is a process for making things right, for shaping what people need." - Ralph Caplan

"Design is content with intent. Content without intent is noise. Intent without content is decoration." - Joe Sparano

"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." - Mat Marquis

"There is no such thing as simple. Simple is hard." - Martin Scorsese

"Whoever tells the best story wins." - Annette Simmons

"When I am down, [I am] not good at any work, including design work." - Stefan Sagmeister

"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." - James Hague

"Good designers are praised for their technique, great designers for their impact." - Tate Linden

"Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’." - Achille Castiglioni

"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." - Andrew Spittle

"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." - Paul Rand

"Design is about enabling ideas, processes and products: making them approachable, usable, desireable and memorable." - Jay Dutta

"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

"Discontentment and reiteration are vital to good design." - Sammuel Nevarez

"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." - Frank Chimero

"We make the whole widget." - Steve Jobs

"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 Glaser

"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

"Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker." - Arman Nobari

"Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art." - John Gruber

"Theory can blind observation." - Carol Gilligan

"A good design is driven by needs and defined by constraints." - Astik Pant

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

"One paints with one’s head, not one’s hand." - Michalangelo

"Passion, dedication, and silly lists of what designers need are what designers need." - Arman Nobari

"You don’t have to be 'a creative' to be creative." - Drory Ben-Menachem

"Write it down. You will lose thoughts, you thought, that you thought." - Vanessa Workoff

"Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence." - Osho

"There’s no duo more passionate than the design and me." - Gonxalo Blanco

"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

"Design is the body language of your marketing. Don’t slouch." - Mark King

"If we have trouble using something then it’s probably because that thing is badly designed, rather than us being stupid." - Dmitry Fadeyev

"We need to shift from designing applications to designing implications." - Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby

"Tell it like it is, in a way they want to hear it." - Wihan Meerholz