Quotes
On Design
What is design? It’s where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.
- Mitchell Kapor
The details are not the details. They make the design.
- Charles Eames
It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Terre des hommes, 1939
Design for the way people are, not how you want them to be. Always question the authority, even if you are the authority!
- Don Norman
Inspirational
Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it. Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning. There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mahatma Ghandi
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Albert Einstein
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
- E. E. Cummings
Yet with great toil all that I can attain,
by long experience, and in learned schools,
is for to know my knowledge is but vain,
and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
- William Alexander
If you do not work on an important problem, it’s unlikely that you’ll do important work.
- Richard Hamming
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
-Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut