The Pope of Quotes

Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs. - Frank Chimero

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. - Jessamyn West

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make. - Sister Corita Kent

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe. - Winston Churchill

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke

Design is always about synthesis -synthesis of market needs, technology trends, and business needs. - Jim Wicks

Injustice in the end produces independence. - Voltaire

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none. - Lois Lowry

Now that we’ve agreed designers should code, can we also agree designers should know how to write? - Mike Monteiro

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work & an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. - Zig Ziglar

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. - Kurt D. Cobain

Learning never exhausts the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. - Michel de Montaigne

You can't get lost if you don't know where you are going. - anonymous

Less is more. - Robert Browning

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits. - Studs Terkel

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. - Isaac Asimov

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers. - Voltaire

It's art if it can't be explained. It's fashion if no one asks for an explanation. It's design if it doesn't need an explanation. - Wouter Stokkel

Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die. - anonymous

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. - Rebekah Cox

The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said. - Katherine Boo

Don't live to make your presence noticed, live to make your absence felt. - Bob Marley

The best thing we can do for this planet is die. - Mike Monteiro

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. - Alex Haley

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free. - Zadie Smith

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Theodor Seuss Geisel

Design isn't risky. Change is. Good design mitigates that risk. - Jeffrey Veen

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. - Shirley Jackson

Learning never exhausts the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

The museum of the living world is always open for business. Admission is free. - John Maeda

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. - Marshall McLuhan

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. - Bernard M. Baruch

We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album? - Natalie Angier

Quiet people have the loudest minds. - Stephen Hawking

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

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not. - Albert Camus

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. - Guy de Maupassant

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel. - Mikhail Lermontov

Go into the Arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. - Kurt Vonnegut

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.' - Marshall McLuhan

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. - Bertrand Russell

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended. - Adrian Forty