"If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid." - Christopher Peterson

"A good designer may not have all the answers, but he knows which questions to ask." - Rudy Duke

"‎Heaven, I believe, is right here, just waiting for us to create it." - Jesse Scaccia

"I really like looking at design and thinking: that attention to detail must have taken absolutely ages." - Si Scott

"Copywriting is definitely the profession most written about." - Dave Kotler

"Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work." - Gustave Flaubert

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken." - Warren Buffett

"I’m not thinking about this pen when I’m writing with it. Rather, it’s when you least think about it that the pen can be held most naturally." - Naoto Fukasawa

"The value, and especially the legitimization of design will be, in the future, measured more in terms of how it can enable us to survive… on this planet." - Dieter Rams

"I just worked hard and tried to make my thing better." - Jesse Thorn

"No matter how cool your interface is, it would be better if there were less of it." - Alan Cooper

"Let the design team be the design experts. Your job is to be the business expert. Ask them how their design solutions meet your business goals. If you trust your design team, and they can explain how their recommendations map to those goals, you’re fine. If you neither trust them, nor can they defend their choices it’s time to get a new design team." - Mike Monteiro

"You don’t get harmony if everyone sings the same note." - Steve Honey

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it." - Howard Thurman

"… 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

"There are too many elements on most web pages to affix or align each one to the baseline grid. Doing so would require a mathematical rigor that, if it can be achieved, might produce rationally exact measurements and placements but will most likely be something less than elegant. The result would be a design driven by math, rather than a design that uses math to create an elegant product." - Khoi Vinh

"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A designer, like an archaeologist or geologist; researches, uncovers and adds context to precious, overlooked treasures by digging deep beneath the surface." - Scott Theisen

"Wondering is the seed of genius." - William Mocca

"A great logo isn’t going to make a shitty product any less shitty, any more than a hard worker is going to make a bad boss a compelling leader." - Christopher Simmons

"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 Hunt

"Web design is art wrapped in technology." - James Weaver

"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 Poole

"At this point in experience design’s evolution, satisfaction ought to be the norm, and delight out to be the goal." - Stephen Anderson

"A friend once insisted to me that the plural of 'moron' is 'focus group.'" - Ethan Marcotte

"Instead of searching for inspiration, how about you search out someone to inspire." - Tony Kim

"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 Cox

"Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research." - Chet Atkins

"Simplicity will stand out, while complexity will get lost in the crowd." - Kevin Barnett

"If I want to get hired to do something, I should already be doing it." - Trent Walton