"The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. " - John Maeda

"Clients are the difference between design and art. " - Michael Bierut

"Influence is borrowed, inspiration is earned. Create opportunities to earn it, and have a plan to capture it. " - Cameron Moll

"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 Scrivens

"Being able to take ideas and transform them into something tangible is life-affirming. " - Melinda Santillian

"If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don’t need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it. " - John Carmack

"Bad design shouts at you. Good design is the silent seller. " - Shane Meendering

"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 Dali

"Sometimes you can draw more inspiration from the people who don’t believe in you, then from the ones who do. " - William Childs

"Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery. " - Jeff Atwood

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. " - Oscar Wilde

"All of the buildings, all of those cars were once just a dream in somebody’s head. " - Peter Gabriel

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. " - Douglas Adams

"This is our job as designers – to continue making decisions until the purpose of the design is perfectly clear. Then you are done. " - Terry Acker

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. " - Jack Kerouac

"Designers deal in ideas. They give shape to ideas that shape our world, enrich everyday experiences, and improve our lives. Where there’s confusion, designers fashion clarity; where there’s chaos, designers construct order; where there’s entropy, designers promote vitality; where there’s indifference, designers swell passion; where there’s mediocrity, designers imbue excellence; and where there’s silence, designers lend voice. " - Ken Peters

"There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design. " - Edward Tufte

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. " - Bradford Sherrill

"A perfect implementation of the wrong specification is worthless. By the same principle a beautifully crafted library with no documentation is also damn near worthless. If your software solves the wrong problem or nobody can figure out how to use it, there’s something very bad going on. " - Tom Preston-Werner

"When we have clients who are thinking about Flash splash pages, we tell them to go to their local supermarket and bring a mime with them. Have the mime stand in front of the supermarket, and, as each customer tries to enter, do a little show that lasts two minutes, welcoming them to the supermarket and trying to explain the bread is on aisle six and milk is on sale today." - Jared Spool

"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

"The ultimate inspiration is the deadline." - Nolan Bushnell

"Your opinion won’t matter. It’s important that you prove your point with numbers." - Samantha LeVan

"We are all designers, the difference is that only a few of us do it full-time." - Sabo Tercero

"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

"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

"I believe that a good user interface is carefully targeted towards its audience, with the right mixture of simplicity, elegance and innovation." - Robert Peloschek

"The sharpness of the sword is not in the edge of the blade, but in the hand of the warrior." - Martin Aquino

"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 Commercial

"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need." - Will Rogers