What are we in relation to our own minds and bodies – or, seeing that there is not a single word, let us use it in a hyphenated form – our own mind-bodies? What are we in relation to this total organism in which we live?

#361 · Aldous Huxley

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

#360 · Kurt D. Cobain

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

#359 · Kurt D. Cobain

Rather be dead than cool.

#358 · Kurt D. Cobain

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

#357 · Kurt D. Cobain

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

#356 · Kurt D. Cobain

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

#355 · Kurt D. Cobain

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

#354 · alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.

#353 · alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

#352 · alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.

#351 · alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

#350 · alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

#349 · Robert A. Heinlein

Hands, do what you’re bid:
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.

#348 · Jeremy Keith

Love is the mystery of water and a star.

#347 · Pablo Neruda

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

#346 · Pablo Neruda

Laughter is the language of the soul.

#345 · Pablo Neruda

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.

#344 · Pablo Neruda

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

#343 · Pablo Neruda

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.

#342 · Steve Wozniak

An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

#341 · Jef Raskin

A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into "beginner" and "expert" subsystems.

#340 · Jef Raskin

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

#339 · Franz Kafka

How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

#338 · Alan Alexander Milne (Winnie the Pooh)

Listen to your client, take into consideration all of their input, weigh the options, study the details, know the target audience, and then, if necessary, ignore all of it and design what you think will work best.

#337 · Von R. Glitschka

A technology is not an independent or alien object, it complements integrally our sensory and cognitive system; as a medium, it conditions not only communication modes but also the way we perceive and conceive our environment. When these ratios change men change.

#336 · Marshall McLuhan

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

#335 · Josef Albers

You can't get lost if you don't know where you are going.

#334 · anonymous

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

#333 · Comte de Bussy-Rabutin 1618-1693

To look is to learn, if you listen carefully.

#332 · Per Arnold

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heavens sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

#331 · Kurt Vonnegut

Go into the Arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

#330 · Kurt Vonnegut

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

#329 · Plato

Light is this amazing elixir. We drink light through the skin as vitamin D so we are, literally, light eaters. It is part of our diet.

#328 · James Turrell

Nothing comes from Nowhere.

#326 · Anthony Burrill

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

#325 · Leonard Nimoy

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

#324 · Marcel Proust

No rain. No rainbow.

#323 · anonymous

The first draft of anything is shit.

#322 · Ernest Hemingway

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

#321 · Marcus Aurelius

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

#320 · Maya Angelou

There is no greater burden than great potential.

#319 · Charles M. Schulz

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

#318 · Charles M. Schulz

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

#317 · Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.

#316 · Charles M. Schulz

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

#315 · Charles M. Schulz

Design will remain broken until we decouple design schools from art schools.

#314 · Mike Monteiro

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

#313 · Max Bill

Art is a product; design is a process.

#312 · Paul Rand

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

#311 · Otl Aicher

No more art. The street is more important than the museum.

#310 · Otl Aicher

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

#309 · Kahlil Gibran

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

#308 · Kahlil Gibran

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

#307 · Kahlil Gibran

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

#289 · Kahlil Gibran

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours.
And if they don't, they never were.

#288 · Kahlil Gibran

What matters now isn’t storytelling; it’s telling a true story well.

#306 · Ann Handley

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

#305 · Edward Snowden

Companies don’t have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.

#304 · Margaret Heffernan

Our designs are not ethical or unethical in that they're using ethical or unethical means of persuading us. They have a moral component just in the kind of vision and the aspiration of the good life that they present to us.

#303 · Sebastian Deterding

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.

#302 · Scott Adams

The best way to predict is to invent it.

#301 · Alan Curtis Kay

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

#300 · Richard Wright

There is no intuitive interface, not even the nipple. It's all learned.

#299 · Bruce Ediger

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

#298 · Jim Rohn

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

#297 · Malcolm S. Forbes

Brevity is the soul of wit.

#296 · Shakespeare

Many of our interfaces are really just ways to try to repackage time so that it’s meaningful, so that we can do stuff with it. It’s not that there isn’t enough time but rather that there’s too much of it.

#295 · Paul Ford

I can never remember if we are supposed to live each day as it were our last, or if it’s the first day of the rest of our lives.

#294 · Paul Ford

The only unit of time that matters is heartbeats.

#293 · Paul Ford

Do not confuse what's important with what's impressive.

#292 · E.M. Forster

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

#291 · E.M. Forster

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

#290 · E.M. Forster

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

#287 · Arthur C. Clarke

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

#286 · Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

#285 · Arthur C. Clarke

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

#284 · Friedrich Nietzsche

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

#283 · Francis Picabia

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

#282 · William Faulkner

No one comes to a website for the design. Just like no one goes to the theater for the seating. But your ass enjoys a good seat.

#281 · Mike Monteiro

Never, ever, ever let them call you a “creative”. It’s a way to be disenfranchised. You are a designer. It’s not magic, it’s a trade.

#280 · Mike Monteiro

Confidence doesn’t come from knowing you’re right—it comes from being okay with failing.

#279 · Mike Monteiro

A good designer finds an elegant way to put everything you need on a page. A great designer convinces you half that shit is unnecessary.

#278 · Mike Monteiro

If you plan for less than your capacity, you get less done than you could have. If you plan for more than your capacity, you get less done than you could have.

#277 · Kent Beck

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

#276 · Friedrich Nietzsche

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

#275 · William Faulkner

What you save on budget, you take on in risk.

#274 · Mike Monteiro

The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

#273 · Socrates

Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

#272 · William Faulkner

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

#271 · William Faulkner

Go where your heart directs you.

#270 · Gerry Burnie

Everyone talks about leaving a better planet for our kids. Let’s try to leave better kids for our planet.

#269 · Gerry Burnie

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

#268 · William James

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

#267 · Sigmund Freud

A year from now, you may wish you had started today.

#266 · Karen Lamb

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends. For what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

#265 · Arthur Miller

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

#264 · Arthur Miller

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

#263 · Arthur Miller

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

#262 · Arthur Miller

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

#261 · Margaret Mitchell

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

#260 · Steve Wozniak

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

#259 · Henry James

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

#258 · Harper Lee

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

#169 · Albert Einstein

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

#168 · Carl Jung

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth.

#167 · Carl Jung

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

#166 · Ken Blanchard

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

#257 · Albert Einstein

Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right question.

#251 · anonymous

Tell me and I forget; teach me and I may remember; involve me and I will learn.

#250 · Xun Kuang

Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.

#256 · Daphne Rose Kingma

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

#255 · Winston Churchill

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

#254 · Mother Teresa

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

#253 · Jerry Seinfeld

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

#252 · Alan Turing

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

#249 · Albert Einstein

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

#248 · Ayn Rand

Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know” and thou shalt progress.

#247 · Maimonides

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

#246 · Stephen Covey

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

#245 · Julian Assange

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

#244 · Charlotte Brontë

We loved with a love that was more than love.

#243 · Edgar Allan Poe

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

#242 · John Muir

Where architects use forms and spaces to design environments for inhabitation, information architects use nodes and links to design environments for understanding.

#241 · Jorge Arango

Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration.

#240 · Kevin Ashton

If Content Is King, Context Is Its Crown.

#239 · Pelle Snickars

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

#238 · John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

#237 · John Lennon

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

#236 · Oscar Wilde

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

#235 · Oscar Wilde

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

#234 · Woody Allen

The role of a leader is not to come up with great ideas but to create an environment in which ideas can happen.

#233 · Simon Sinek

Do, or do not. There is no try.

#232 · Yoda

See with one eye, feel with the other.

#231 · Paul Klee

The way that you accomplish tasks with a product—what you do and how it responds—that’s the interface

#230 · Jef Raskin

Good design is when I like it.

#229 · Everybody

Good information design is clear thinking made visible.

#170 · Edward Tufte

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

#1 · Walter Bagehot

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

#2 · Michael Porter

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

#3 · Alice Kahn

The medium is the message.

#4 · Marshall McLuhan

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

#5 · Friedrich Nietzsche

Without a problem, there is no project.

#6 · Joe Di Stefano

Findability Precedes Usability
In the Alphabet and on the Web.
You Can't Use What You Can't Find.

#7 · Peter Morville

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

#8 · Wernher von Braun

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

#9 · Frank Lloyd Wright

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

#10 · Groucho Marx

To do is to be.

#11 · Friedrich Nietzsche

It takes a long time to become young.

#12 · Pablo Picasso

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

#13 · Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

#14 · Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

#15 · Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

#16 · Albert Einstein

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

#17 · Oscar Wilde

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

#18 · Anais Nin

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

#19 · Woody Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying !

#20 · Woody Allen

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like... making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

#21 · Woody Allen

Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one...

#22 · anonymous

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere

#23 · anonymous

I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because, if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.

#24 · miss alabama 1994

Information is power.

#25 · Nicholas Negroponte

Simplicity of device is always the sign of the master, whether in science or in art.

#26 · Richard C. Maclaurin

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

#27 · Albert Einstein

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

#28 · Leonardo da Vinci

A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

#29 · George Bernard Shaw

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

#30 · Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#31 · Robert Browning

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

#32 · Wernher von Braun

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

#33 · Paul Rand

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

#34 · Edward Tufte

Rather, the point is to recognize the tightness between seeing and thinking on an intellectual level not just a metaphorical level.

#36 · Edward Tufte

The key argument is that cognitive tasks should be turned into design principles.

#37 · Edward Tufte

Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.

#38 · Martin Luther King Jr.

The museum of the living world is always open for business. Admission is free.

#39 · John Maeda

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

#40 · Bob Dole

The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

#41 · William Gibson

The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural, and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

#42 · Richard Saul Wurman

Designing a product is designing a relationship.

#43 · Steve Rogers, BBC

Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.

#44 · Paul Rand

Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple.

#45 · Tim Parsey

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

#46 · Victor Papanek

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

#47 · Adrian Forty

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

#48 · Eliel Saarinen

Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.

#49 · Frank Chimero

Many desperate acts of design (including gradients, drop shadows, and the gratuitous use of transparency) are perpetuated in the absence of a strong concept. A good idea provides a framework for design decisions, guiding the work.

#50 · Noreen Morioka

Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right, both parties are happy in the end.

#51 · Colin Wright

A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.

#52 · Leo Frankowski

It's art if it can't be explained. It's fashion if no one asks for an explanation. It's design if it doesn't need an explanation.

#53 · Wouter Stokkel

Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.

#54 · Tate Linden

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.

#55 · Jeffrey Zeldman

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

#56 · Ellen Lupton

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.

#57 · Joe Sparano

People ignore design that ignores people.

#58 · Frank Chimero

good art inspires, good design motivates.

#59 · Otl Aicher

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

#60 · Paul Rand

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

#61 · Paul Rand

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

#62 · Paul Rand

Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.

#63 · Paul Rand

Simplicity will stand out, while complexity will get lost in the crowd.

#64 · Kevin Barnett

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