Quotes

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

— Latin proverb

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

— Max Planck

We must design for the way people behave,not for how we would wish them to behave.

— Donald A. Norman

You can’t lose, you’ve just got to figure out how you want to win.

— Rox

It’s not real art if you’re not vulnerable—otherwise you’re not eliciting an emotional response

— Jeffy K

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

— Mark Twain

Put typescript on the outer edges of the things outside of your control

— Andre de Albuquerque

I’m going to keep throwing startups at the wall until one hooks me a meeting w/ PG

— texoport

I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

— Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

yeah dude, you are either playing ranked matches in games, or in life

— h3llofriend

If only my peak productivity hours weren’t 7-9am and 9-11pm—flanked myself

— Liam Bigelow

To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You must accept the most tedious tasks with pleasure.

— Bruce Lee

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

— Richard Bach

Don’t forget the skateboard

— codefork

Design is when designers design a design to produce a design.

— Manni Moki - John Heskett -

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. … No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others

— Martha Graham

The hardest part of design work is hiding who you stole it all from

— Threecreepio

Design implements ideas. Points a bit towards the culture. But doesn’t dictate.

— hittaus

Names are the smallest possible unit of documentation.

— Emma Ferguson

Leaders are hunters; the rest blindly follow.

— Damon Chen

Accessibility is for everyone, your future self will thank you someday.

— ManniMoki

Everyday we are all learning in this field [development], it’s to big to know everything. You learn what you need and when you need it. We all do.

— flowwwiii

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

— Lao Tzu

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

— Marian Anderson

Do only the needful

— Unknown

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

— Marcus Aurelius

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

Gangsters do what they want, bitches do what they can.

— Sean Stenthouse