🌱 Quotes

“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
-Ken Blanchard

Dave Winer

One of the really amazing things about New York City is the extent to which the city anticipated its own growth. It built elevated rail systems to neighborhoods that didn’t exist. A grid that went into the Bronx when the city barely made it to 14th St. A huge city park in the middle of nowhere. Tech guys have to think like that. So few do.

Steve Jobs

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Don Miguel Ruiz

  1. Be impeccable with your word
  2. Don’t take anything personally
  3. Don’t make assumptions
  4. Always do your best

Gert Dumbar

In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German formgeben. And the other word is ontwerpen; in German entwurf. In the Anglo-Saxon language there’s only one word for design, which is design. That is something you should work out. Vormgeving is more to make things look nice. So for instance, packaging for a perfume or for chocolate in order to make things fashionable, obsolete and therefore bad for society because we don’t really need it. While ontwerpe means, and the Anglo-saxon word, but its stronger, means engineering. That means you as a person try to invent a new thing—which is intelligent, which is clever, and which will have a long-life. And that’s called stylistic durability. It means you can use it for a long time.

Dieter Rams

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

Dr. Seuss

Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Isaac Asimov:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”.

David Sparks

It seems every time I meet someone who goes out of their way to tell me how ethical and righteous they are, I inevitably find that when given a chance, they are first ones to screw someone over.

Thomas Jefferson

a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.

Ben Lowy

Everyone has a pen, but not everyone can draw.

On shooting the TIME cover with an iPhone.

Samuel Johnson

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Victor Papanek

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order.

Edward Gibbon

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Horace

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Will Rodgers

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Dee Hock

Simple clear purpose and principles gives rise complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Rodger Ebert

…all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

Brent Simmons

Better that the client code is simple and the server code is smart.

MICHELANGELO

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

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