"Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our way of approaching it closed. It’s simple, it’s elegant, you can slip it in your pocket, but it’s got the great doodad when you need it. A lot of our competitors are like a Swiss Army knife open – and that can be intimidating and occasionally harmful." - Marissa Mayer

"I blame television and movies, especially cop shows. 'Can you improve the resolution on that face?' 'Sure, let me just pull some information that was never captured out of my ass.'" - Rod Knowlton

"Propaganda supersedes fact, truth and common sense in all cases." - P.S.C. Trier

"Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake." - Jeffrey Zeldman

"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

"My rates are as follows:
$50/hr.
$75/hr. if you watch
$100/hr. if you help" - An Autobody Sign

"Life is conversational. Web design should be the same way. On the web, you’re talking to someone you’ve probably never met – so it’s important to be clear and precise. Thus, well structured navigation and content organization goes hand in hand with having a good conversation." - Chikezie Ejiasi

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice." - Josef Muller-Brockmann

"Clients don’t understand their success is reliant on standing out, not fitting in." - Don Draper

"If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you aren’t doing anything very innovative." - Woody Allen

"I think there are two types of people in this world – people who can start things and people who can finish things. And while I place great value on the finishers, it’s the starters who are rare because they can envision what isn’t there." - Ed Frank

"I mean there’s a fun in being hated, it puts a fire in your ass and it gets fucking boring to be loved by everyone." - James Hetfield

"For me, discomfort is a signal of an exceptional concept. When I’m totally comfortable with a concept, I’ve probably used it fore or seen it somewhere else. Discomfort is almost a prerequisite for a great idea." - Craig Frazier

"Deal with the difficult while it is yet easy;
Deal with the great while it is yet small." - Tao Te Ching

"What we got here is… failure to communicate." - Cool Hand Luke

"The big problem is most contemporary design practiced today is not really graphic design, but graphic decoration." - Art Chantry

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln

"Always give a little more than you promise." - The Studebaker Brothers

"I can think of nothing worse than becoming really popular, being all the rage." - Rem Koolhaas

"Check your bookshelf. If it’s full of titles on HTML, CSS, and the like, instead of typography, color, and layout, you may be missing a key ingredient in the designer’s knowledge diet." - Jeff Croft

"Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible." - Alexander Isley

"I don’t think that all people read in the same way. Today, entire generations are growing up watching MTV and playing video games and it is safe to assume that these people have a high degree of visual sophistication. and are not easily discouraged by a lens straightforward or ambiguous typography. On the contrary, they are attracted and enticed to read something because of visual richness." - Ruby Vanderlans

"Good designers copy; great designers steal." - Pablo Picasso

"Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can’t figure you out." - Jay-Z

"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

"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 Silverstein

"It has taken my entire life to understand what I already knew about creating art in 3rd grade." - Philip Carrera

"As a profession, graphic designers have been shamefully remiss or ineffective about plying their craft for social or political betterment." - Steven Heller

"To some degree, to be creative you have to be selfish." - Meredith Norwood