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"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 Cook10
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"If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." - Robert Sewell31
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"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 Sempf6
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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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"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - Edward V Berard4
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"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. Rubenking1
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"Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders." - Unknown15
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"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 Kay5
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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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"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
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"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems." - Jamie Zawinski9
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"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 Stroustrup3
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"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors." - Phil Karlton3
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"In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup4
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"You should name a variable using the same care with which you name a first-born child." - James O. Coplien9
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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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"Not everyone notices the flowers you plant, but everyone will notice the fire you start." - Unknown2
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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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"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." - Rick Osborne1
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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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"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 Ribbens3
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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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"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 Babbage1
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"Using a watermark on your work is like peeing on your belongings so no one will steal them. " - Thomas Amador4
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"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
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"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need." - Will Rogers
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"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original." - Sir Ken Robinson5
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"The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice." - Richard Moore1
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein5
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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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"… 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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"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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"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. Dijkstra1
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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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"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 Isley1
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"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." - C. A. R. Hoare3
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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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"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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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln3
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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 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 Petroski1
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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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"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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"The most effective way to make a design usable is to make it interesting enough that people want to use it." - Bryan Grezeszak1
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"Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn. " - Charles Bukowski1
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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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"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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"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. " - Anne Morrow Lindbergh3
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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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"The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before." - Neil Gaiman2
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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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"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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"Everything is possible, that’s what science is all about. No, that’s what’s being a Magical Elf is all about." - The Professor (on Futurama)
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"Sometimes you can draw more inspiration from the people who don’t believe in you, then from the ones who do. " - William Childs3
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"If there is one word I’d like to remove from any conversation about design, it’s 'pretty.'" - Aarron Walter1
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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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"When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all." - God (from Futurama)2
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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 Allen2
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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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"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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"Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness. " - Chuck Green1
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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 Russell3
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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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"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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"Well you’re in your little room
and you’re working on something good
but if it’s really good
you’re gonna need a bigger room
and when you’re in the bigger room
you might not know what to do
you might have to think of
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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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"Deal with the difficult while it is yet easy;
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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 Rutledge6
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"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
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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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"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 Collinsworth2
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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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"Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you’re the only expert." - Frank Gehry1
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"If design becomes your life, you can be sure a lot of people will be making their living thanks to your designs." - Andrés Contenti
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"Limit your usage to two fonts (three at the absolute most) to help viewers focus on the words, not how many different fonts are saying them. " - Dan Rubin3
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"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
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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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"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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"The designer is not always right. The researcher is not always wrong. Profit is not always the motive; market research, whatever its outcome, should never be used as a good excuse for bad design – in the same sense that good design should never be used to promote a bad product." - Paul Rand1
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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 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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"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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"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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"[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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"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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"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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"I would say my biggest pet peeve related to the industry would be people focusing on technology instead of design, standards instead of users, and validation rather than innovation. Web standards and best practices are noble goals, but all too often in our community people forget they are a means to an end, not the end itself." - Jeff Croft
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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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"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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"Don’t let your design resist your readers. Don’t let it stand in the way of what they want to do: read." - Steve Krug1
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"I’ve always held to the belief that the practice of creating compelling graphic design occurs not by employing the principals of a democracy, but rather, that of a monarchy." - Thomas Vasquez2
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"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 Bergman5
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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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"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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"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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"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 -
"A graphic designer is a machine that turns coffee into beautiful, functional imagery." - Lisa Manson1
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"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
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"There’s a point when you’re done simplifying. Otherwise, things get really complicated. " - Frank Chimero
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Simplicity does not mean want or poverty. It does not mean the absence of any decor, or absolute nudity. It only means that the decor should belong intimately to the design proper, and that anything foreign to it should be taken away." - Paul Jacques Grillo2
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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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"As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
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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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"I became a graphic artist because of the tools. I love working at a big drawing table with traditional tools: T-squares, compasses, mechanical pencils, French curves, blank ink, and graphite. At a computer, one works on a keyboard. I never considered myself a typist." - Michael Schwab1
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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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"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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"We need to shift from designing applications to designing implications." - Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby
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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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"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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"Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. " - Richard C. Trench
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"If you can’t draw as well as someone, or use the software as well, or if you do not have as much money to buy supplies, or if you do not have access to the tools they have, beat them by being more thoughtful. Thoughtfulness is free and burns on time and empathy. " - Frank Chimero
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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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"Passion, dedication, and silly lists of what designers need are what designers need." - Arman Nobari
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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 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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"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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"An enterprise’s most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities." - Kun-Hee Lee
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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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"Good design must be defined by appropriateness to audience and goals, and by its effectiveness, not by its adherence to Swiss design or the number of awards it wins." - Drew Davies
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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 Lupton1
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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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"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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"I try not to think out of the box anymore, but on its edge, its corner, its flap, and under its bar code." - Clint Runge4
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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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"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
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"I have always railed against ideological purity, or any other kind. Corruption is more interesting than purity." - Milton Glaser1
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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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"There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential." - Pierre Auguste Renoir1
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"It isn’t a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper." - Louis Silverstein
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"In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers as you had cows?" - David Ogilvy
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"In the presence of good rationale, maintainers should be willing to change their mind often." - Havoc Pennington
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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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"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Stop looking at yourself as a designer, and start thinking of yourself as a deliverer of ideas." - Ståle Melvær3
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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 Miriello3
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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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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. " - Aristotle1
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"Design is everywhere. From the dress you’re wearing to the smartphone you’re holding, it’s design." - Samadara Ginige1
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"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. " - Babe Ruth
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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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"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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"Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read." - Leo Burnett
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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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"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." - Edward Tufte
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"Design is crucially important. We can’t have advances in technology any longer, unless design is integrated from the very start." - John Underkoffler
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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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"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing." - Marc Chagall3
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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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"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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"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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"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 Piippo9
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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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"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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"Influence is borrowed, inspiration is earned. Create opportunities to earn it, and have a plan to capture it. " - Cameron Moll
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"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies, and humors." - George Santayana
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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