“What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.”— Karl Lagerfeld, glamourmagazine.co.uk
“Today's idle thought: how many years of human productivity have been wasted by software designers creating components in pixels that already exist in code?”— Josh Puckett, twitter.com
“We spend all this time and energy using precise tools to produce perfect caricatures of things we rarely understand the complexities of making real.”— Daniel Eden, daneden.me
“Let’s try it in green or can we use a slider instead are potentially hazardous forms of feedback considering marketable solutions don't come from the UI.”— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co
“There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“The best way to plan a house on a vacant piece of land is to move into a tiny shepherd's hut on a corner of the property. And during that week, you'll understand more about the land than you ever could in an hour of walking around.”— Seth Godin, sethgodin.typepad.com
“It’s high time to rescue ‘intelligent design’ from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.”— Georg C. Lichtenberg, goodreads.com
“Overnight I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one worldwide. I was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“Many people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn’t true. Our memories are constructive. They’re rec…”— Elizabeth Loftus, ted.com
“Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.”— Ben Shneiderman, ubiquity.acm.org
“What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”— Chris Abani, ted.com
“We're all just human beings. We should be guided by that most basic fact, and approach one another with generosity and compassion.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“When we engage people across ideological divides, asking questions helps us map the disconnect between our differing points of view.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“Being a UX designer includes understanding how humans think and feel, and using that power for good.”— Becca Kennedy, whatusersdo.com
“You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.”— Chris Abani, ted.com
“Toolkit for clear thinking: Start with the end goal in mind. Think from the perspective of the other person.”— Carl Pei, twitter.com