Quotes
“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.” ~William Gibson
“Pink is the navy blue of India.” ~Diana Vreeland
“To simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” ~Hans Hofmann
“New media don’t succeed because they’re like the old media, only better: they succeed because they’re worse than the old media at the stuff the old media is good at, and better at the stuff the old media are bad at.” ~Cory Doctorow
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” ~Marshall McLuhan
“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.” ~Marshall McLuhan
“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.” ~John Petit-Senn
“Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.” ~Roy Adzak
“If the first thing I see on your site doesn’t directly answer the question ‘What is this?’ then you have failed.” ~Dustin Curtis
“No amount of data analysis can make up for lack of talent.” ~Jeffrey Zeldman
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ~Abe Lincoln
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.” ~Oscar Wilde by way of fortune cookie
“Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.” ~Benny Hill
“People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” ~Steve Jobs
“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” ~Henry J. Kaiser
“Don’t make me think.” ~Steve Krug
“The display is the computer.” ~Jen-Hsun Huang
“We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.” ~The Talmud
“You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.” ~Frank Lloyd Wright
“Never use a warning when you mean undo.” ~Aza Raskin
“A bad web site is like a grumpy salesperson.” ~Jakob Nielsen
“Every abundance creates a new scarcity.” ~Chris Anderson
“People have not changed fundamentally in thousands of years. Technology changes constantly. It’s the one that must adapt to us.” ~Michael L. Dertouzos
Some of these I discovered on the excellent UXquotes.tumblr.com.