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A good craftsperson never blames their tools

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A misunderstanding that could be fixed in ten minutes can cause problems for years

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A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.

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A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds

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Accessibility helps everyone

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Adam Wathan on tailwind

Alan Kay: Power of Simplicity

All people are different people.

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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will

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Andy Warhol, Stoic?

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Any fool can know; the point is to understand

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand, but good programmers write code that humans can understand

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought

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Anybody who doesn't change their mind a lot is dramatically underestimating the complexity of the world

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty; anyone who keeps learning stays young

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Be willing to be a beginner every single morning

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Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable

Believe logic and arguments, carefully drawn, and not authorities

Button Design - UI component series

Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.

Steve Jobs on Creativity

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Database and narrative are natural enemies

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Data dominates

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David Post on Ruth Bader Ginsberg on writing

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Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do

Don't create a situation with a junkie after dark

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Don’t use your brain for an alarm clock or a whiteboard.

Energy and persistence conquer all things

Enthusiasm is common; endurance is rare

What We Believe About Beliefs

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Estimating Change

Experience without theory is blind

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fine phrases are the last resource of those who have run out of arguments

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine

habit, not an addiction

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

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I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

I would rather have questions I can't answer than answers I can't question

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If it’s bad, I say it’s fake. If it’s good, I say that’s the most accurate poll ever

if you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to care of themselves.

If you don't look back on your younger self and say, "I used to be stupid," you're probably still stupid.

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Instead of assuming that people are dumb, ignorant, and making mistakes, assume they are smart, doing their best, and that you lack context.

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Issac Asimov on US and ignorance

it doesn’t matter how slowly you go, as long as you don’t stop

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It was a mistake to believe that other people were not living as deeply as you were

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It’s not a compliment if it comes with a request it’s not an apology if it comes with an excuse

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It's not my fault, but it is my problem

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It’s only hard until it becomes easy

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I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist.

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John Lewis on trouble

Journalism

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If you really hate someone, teach them to recognize bad kerning

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Less but better

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Lie becomes truth only if person wanna believe it.

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Quotes

make it work, make it right, make it fast

Mastering Freelance

more options, more problems

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Nobody should start to undertake a large project

On Knowing Things

philosophy quote knowledge

On political ism's

On spell check

Oscar Wilde on imitation

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PAC Man

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Pay attention to how people treat you after you tell them, No.

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People do not rise to the occasion, they sink to the level of their training

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perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away

Play to win but in a way that gets you re-invited to more games

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Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural.

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Quotes on trust

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Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.

science is about what is; engineering is about what can be

Sometimes fighting to learn something makes it stick in your head better

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sometimes randomness comes in strange forms

Stay in the work

Create your content. Then, review it and delete 10% of what you created

Steve Jobs on Management

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success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure

Success isn't always about greatness, it's about consistency

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Terminology moves, and it moves fast

the greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge

the greatest things in life tend to happen outside our comfort zones, and doubting your ability to step outside of your comfort zone will keep you stuck

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The Meaning of Life

quote philosophy kindness

the more you practice tolerating discomfort, the more confidence you'll gain in your ability to accept new challenges

the more you talk, the less people listen

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The only constant in life is change.

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The past is a foreign country

The primary rule of user interface design is that users won't read a single god damn word you put on the page

the road to success is always under construction

The Secret Is Just Do a Little Bit Over a Long Time

the true method of knowledge is experiment

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There is never band weather only bad cloths.

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there is no magic in magic, it’s all in the details

They Absolutely Do Not Believe Their Own Bullshit, but It’s Useful for Them to Pretend They Do

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This is a sad moment and there ain’t nothing I can say to take that away.

to be ready to fail is to be prepared for success

To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy

quote marketing

What gets measures gets managed

What is now proved was one, only imagin'd

quote science process

When a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

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When things feel foreign to a UI, they're often ignored. When they feel integrated, they're usually much more effective. This is why a cohesive design matters. It's not consistency for consistency's sake but consistency for efficiency’s sake.

You are not so smart

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You are not this next thought

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you cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

You don't have to be the best, just better than last week.

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You get further in life by avoiding repeated stupidity than you do by striving for maximum intelligence.

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Your experience is not everyone's else's experience

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