If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: it took us 5000 years to put wheels on our luggage. William McDonough
The problem with quick and dirty, is that the dirty remains long after the quick has been forgotten. Steve C. McConnell
Standards are like toothbrushes, everybody agrees you should have one, but no one wants to use yours. Joe Croser
The time it takes to make a decision increases as the number of alternatives increases. William Edmund Hick
You can fix it now on the drafting board with an eraser or you can fix it later on the construction site with a sledge hammer. Frank Lloyd Wright
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. El Lissitzky
There’s the whole Buddhist thing about the essence of a bowl being its emptiness—that’s why it’s useful. Its emptiness allows it to hold something. I guess that means that design must talk about something else. If you make design about design, you’re just stacking bowls, and that’s not what bowls are for. Frank Chimero
Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other. Joel Spolsky
There is really nothing more to say – except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. Toni Morrison
Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name. Bill Buxton
The cost of changing things afterward is much higher than the cost of better preparation. Dieter Rams
