These are quotes I’ve picked up from various places. Things I want to remember and share with others. Thanks to Jason Fried for the idea.
I operate based on the infinite potential good of a decision rather than the finite, manageable bad that could come from it. -Alex Hillman
If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse. -Henry Ford
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. -Peter F. Drucker
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. -Gabriel García Márquez
Here’s the thing I’ve learned about ideas. It’s your job to have them. It’s your fate that they’ll sometimes be ignored or unappreciated. It’s beneath you to throw a tantrum when this is exactly what happens. Finally, don’t fool yourself into thinking it’s enough to simply not mind getting credit. If you really want to get something done, go around looking for people for the credit to go to and work your execution backwards from there. -Ryan Holiday
However, there’s no excuse for design decisions, in open source or elsewhere, to be arbitrary. While good user experience design does involve creativity and risk-taking, it is not art: it is not left up to the particular tastes of the creator. The goal of user experience design is to solve problems and improve how people interact with technology. The path from a design problem to a solution is one that designers handle differently, but at its core should always resemble the scientific method: a deliberate process that improves and changes based on data. -Jennifer Boriss