Quotes

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.

— 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