Latest Quotes

“Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user's self-expression.”

— Dieter Rams, Good Design is unobtrusive

“It clarifies the product's structure. Better still, it can make the product talk. At best, it is self-explanatory.”

— Dieter Rams, Good Design makes a product understandable

“The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products we use every day affect our person and our well-being. But only well-executed objects can be beautiful.”

— Dieter Rams, Good Design is aestethic

“A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.”

— Dieter Rams, Good Design Makes a product useful

“The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself.”

— Dieter Rams, Good Design is innovative

“If you’re frustrated because you’re not getting what you want, stop for a second: Have you actually flat-out asked for it? If you haven’t, stop complaining. You can’t expect the world to read your mind. You have to put it out there, and sometimes putting it out there is as simple as just saying, 'He…”

— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS

“Feel the heat on your beach, driving in the Porsche; you think you're spoiling me. You know I might be easy now. But what you gonna do when the secret's out? I'm trouble every day. Because I'm a lady, I'll just let you wait and think of me.”

— Class Actress, Missed

“Serverless Architecture”

— Classic Programmer Paintings, Uruguayan Masters collection

“Your Government is still on the same side of the street with the Good Samaritan and not with those who pass by on the other side.”

— Franklin Roosevelt, Speech at Madison Square Garden

“Somehow, over the past few decades it's become conventional wisdom that we should put our faith in our feelings. That is, if we feel something—especially if we feel it intensely—then it deserves to be seen as valid, or truthful. The adage "trust your feelings" has by now become almost axiomatic. But…”

— Leon Seltzer, Trust Your Feelings? . . . Maybe Not

“Instead it is more common for designers to spend the vast majority of their time creating artifacts which are of no tangible value and which are unrepresentative of reality.”

— Adam Michela, Do you think as a design community we are building the right tools for ourselves?

“It's a shame that in 2015 women's rights are still under attack in this manner, and that Planned Parenthood, which first and foremost provides healthcare for female-related issues to women who would otherwise not be able to afford it, is still being targeted in this deadly manner. It's even sadder t…”

— Molly Oswaks, Here’s What the Suspect in the Planned Parenthood Mass Shooting Shouted in Court Today

“Why at this late date are we still reinforcing the idea that women are modest and fragile and in need of gender-specific accommodations?”

— Molly Oswaks, Porn for Ladies: The Subtle Sexism of Assessing Female-Friendly Smut

“I didn’t want to stay with my ex-husband, not at my core, even though whole swaths of me did. And if there’s one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it’s that you can’t fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It’s a god we must obey, a force that brings us a…”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

“You don't need another human being to make your life complete, but let's be honest, having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters in your soul, but cracks to put their love into, is the most calming thing in this world.”

— Emery Allen, Become

“Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you’ve always dreamed of, or still haven’t had time to dream up. And prepare…”

— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS

“Don’t ever grow up. Don’t become a bore. Don’t ever let the Man get to you.”

— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find ou…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby