"Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier. " - Jared M. Spool

"Cheap design is like a tattoo… once you get it you’re forever branded with it. " - Ken Peters

"Just because something looks good doesn’t mean its useful. And just because something is useful does not make it beautiful. " - Joshua Brewer

"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 Traynor

"For those who would argue that it’s impossible to evaluate designs without real content, let me ask this: why then, is it okay to evaluate content out of context of the designs? " - Karen McGrane

"Now that we can do anything, what should we do? " - Bill Buxton

"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. " - Judy Garland

"A designer who gives her art away, makes no pay. A designer who keeps her art to herself, makes no friends. " - Amber Seree Allen

"Graphic design has been likened to a wine glass. When we drink wine we barely notice the glass it’s served in. It wouldn’t be true to say that we don’t care what glass we drink out of – we wouldn’t choose to drink a rare vintage out of a Tupperware mug, for example – but it’s the wine that matters, not the vessel it comes in. " - Adrian Shaughnessy

"Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. " - Anthony Burgess

"Creativity is a habit. It’s not something that happens in the shower. " - Nick Law

"When you’re passionate about what you do, you become an evangelist for the very thing you do. " - Jonathan Snook

"Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower. " - Michael Langham

"Traditional marketing is often seeing is getting people to do things but I think web marketing is about helping people do things. " - Gerry McGovern

"Do right. " - Jeffrey Brown

"There is no better designer than nature. " - Alexander McQueen

"Good art inspires; Good design motivates. " - Otl Aicher

"The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life. " - Jessica Hische

"Well done is better than well said. " - Benjamin Franklin

"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

"Done is beautiful. " - Frank Chimero

"Great design is eliminating all unnecessary details. " - Minh D. Tran

"There’s a point when you’re done simplifying. Otherwise, things get really complicated. " - Frank Chimero

"Preparation gives birth to self-confidence. " - Denise Harman

"I don’t read inspiring books. I find that such books give me a temporal high, but they don’t give me the power to actually follow through. In fact, I suspect these books often serve as a substitute for actual success, rather than as a way of helping people achieve success. By reading inspiring books, you can experience success vicariously; they free you from having to achieve things yourself. " - Lukas Mathis

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. " - Aristotle

"A person tends to critique a design in one of several ways. The most common, and usually least valuable, is by gut reaction. " - D. Keith Robinson

"At the end of the day, pretty colors make people drool. " - Nathan Rice

"Creativity isn’t worth a thing if it isn’t served with an equal amount of reliability. " - Anton Peck

"Innovation is seldom hindered by platform. " - Blue Saunders