The power of the grid is to lift the designer outside of the protective capriciousness of the "self" by providing an existing set of possibilities, a set of rules. |

Everything is designed. Few things are designed well. |

It is foolish to think that you will get the design right the first time. It is also foolish to think that there won’t be changes to a design once development begins. And on a larger scale, software products are never done unless they are dead. Life is better when you stop kidding yourself and your team and admit that there is no “done”. |

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. |

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. |

Good content gets lost with bad typography. |

Those who tell the stories rule society. |

Stop consuming images and start producing them. |

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding. |

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. |

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. |

good art inspires, good design motivates. |

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. |

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.” |

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent. |

At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism. |

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. |

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. |

Design is a set of decisions about a product. It's not an interface or an aesthetic, it's not a brand or a color. Design is the actual decisions. |

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

If I had five minutes to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first three sharpening my axe. |

Word of mouth is the best medium of all. |

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. |

My advice should serve for you to oppose it. It is possible that after the opposition you will think the same as I do; but by that time, the thought already belongs to you. |