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Quotes & Toasts

Define then Solve

October 17, 2008

If I had 20 days to solve a problem , I would take 19 days to define it.
Albert Einstein
Solving a problem is easy.
Solving a problem well requires time to understand it.
Solving a problem after defining it leads to a downright sexy solution.

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The Business Model and User Experience

September 24, 2008

When the business model doesn’t match the user experience or… when nobody seems to understand what the business model is, the designer can’t know if they are helping or hurting the company by creating a better experience for the user.
Jared Spool, Why Understanding Business Models is Important to Ix Designers

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Soul Vs. Meat

June 5, 2008

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.
Kurt Vonnegut – Bluebeard

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How it Works

November 29, 2007

People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs in The Guts of a New Machine

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Fearful Men

November 13, 2007

“The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep into our own history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, [...]

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Nonconformists

January 26, 2006

“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.”
Bill Vaughan

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People are always blaming their circumstances…

December 12, 2005

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”
George Bernard Shaw

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Progress isn’t made by early risers

August 12, 2005

“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
Robert Heinlein

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Millions long for immortality…

December 29, 2004

“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
Susan Ertz

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The most valuable result of all education

December 23, 2004

“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.”
Thomas H. Huxley

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