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  1. 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. |
     

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  2. Difference between "features" and "intents":
    Consider a user talking about your app saying, “it can do this, it can do that”. Now compare that to them saying that with your creation “I can do this, I can do that”. The difference is syntactically small but incredibly important from an application design and implementation perspective.
    In the latter case of a user saying that with your app they can do this or they can do that, you have successfully interlocked the users intentions with the features your app possesses.
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    On Design

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  3. Our understanding of the world is largely determined by our ability to organise information. |
     

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  4. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. |
     

    #113

  5. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. |
     

    #114

  6. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. |
     

    #115

  7. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. |
     

    #116

  8. Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. |
     

    #117

  9. Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. |
     

    #118

  10. He who has a why can endure any how. |
     

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  11. Mobile is the needle, Social is the thread... |
     

    #122

  12. The future is a process, not a destination. |
     

    #123

  13. We're only as good as our latest product. I don't believe in brand at all. |
     

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  14. A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist & evolutionary strategist. |
     

    #125

  15. (...) so much of our identities lie in the ability to participate in and contribute to the things that are important to us. |
     

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  16. By the time you've arrived at the perfect solution, the problem will have already changed. Thus "good enough" is truly so. |
     

    #127 source

  17. To use design to impress, to polish things up, to make them chic, is no design at all. This is packaging. |
     

    #128 source

  18. Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. |
     

    On Creativity

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  19. When offered two products, we pick the one that's simple. |
     

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  20. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. |
     

    #133

  21. Whatever is well conceived is clearly said, and the words to say it flow with ease. |
     

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  22. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. |
     

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  23. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. |
     

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  24. Without great solitude, no serious work is possible. |
     

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