The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
Seth Godin
To design is to transform prose into poetry.
Paul Rand
Stare. It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something.
Walker Evans
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Charles Mingus
We have no art. We just do things as well as we can.
Balinese proverb
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't.
Thomas Edison
Ideas that spread win.
Seth Godin
The best way to predict the future is to design it.
Buckminster Fuller
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
You can't trust style. It's only a device, so why develop a sense of allegiance?
Milton Glaser
Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave.
Constantin Brâncusi
The details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles Eames
Art is our defense against hysteria and death.
Theodore Roethke
I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
Henry David Thoreau
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang
In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
Talk does not cook rice.
Chinese proverb
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The White Queen, Through the Looking Glass
We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner
My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.
Dieter Rams
Do your work as though you had a thousand years to live and as if you were to die tomorrow.
Shaker proverb
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Diversity is the magic. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.
Thomas Berry
When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
Clay Shirky
What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
Charles Bukowski
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility?
Søren Kierkegaard
Don't confuse legibility with communication.
David Carson
Design is intelligence made visible.
Lou Danziger
There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.
Jack Keroauc
The Stone Age didn't end because they ran out of stones - someone designed something better.
Fritjof Capra
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
M.C.Escher
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
Charles Eames
If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African proverb
You cannot solve problems from within the same mindset that created them.
Albert Einstein
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Winston Churchill
Nature uses as little as possible of everything.
Johannes Kepler
Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.
Jon Franklin
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Less is not more. Just enough is more.
Milton Glaser
Make things. Collect things. Break things. Connect things.
Frank Chimero
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
Technology has matured so greatly that the difference-maker is design.
Khoi Vinh