Here is a collection of quotes on design that gave me a little uplift today...
Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
- Joss Whedon
If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.
- Mark Twain
The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.
- Martin Gardner
Interesting things never happen to me. I happen to them.
- Bernard Shaw
To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.
- Thomas Manss
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
- David Ogilvy
There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It's harder to read code than to write it.
- Joel Spolsky
A friend once insisted to me that the plural of "moron" is "focus group."
- Ethan Marcotte
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
- Warren Buffett
I met with a potential client today and part of their opening gambit was how they were looking for revolutionary work delivered within a tight timescale and if the work could be done at a reduced rate, then they'd be able to send a load more work our way. ..They were saying that they wanted work that was fast, good and cheap. And if the work was fast, good and cheap enough, the reward would be the offer of more work that is fast, good and cheap. ...Let me be clear about this, these people are evil, and their work is poison.
- Hoss Gifford
When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale?
- Chris Campbell
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
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
- Oscar Wilde
Clients are the difference between design and art.
- Michael Bierut
Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.
- Stella Adler
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
- Paul Kleen
An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet.
- Lee Clow's Beard
