“If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse”
— Woody Allen “There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path”
— Morpheus “If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you”
— Arabian proverb “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”
— Maori Proverb “No amount of evidence will ever convince an idiot”
— Mark Twain “Every child is an artist the problem is staying an artist when you grow up”
— Pablo Picasso “The most talented web designers are those that can adequately balance both their creative and artistic sides with their love of technical coding.”
— “Stress =The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to throttle some jerk who desperately deserves it!!”
— “The rule of threes is a favorite of mine for uncluttered designs: use three fonts (max), three images and three colors.”
— “In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
— Douglas Adams “If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you. – Anon”
— “Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak … sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.”
— “Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst”
— C. S. Lewis “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
— Swami Sivananda “Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
— Albert Einstein “Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”
— Oscar Wilde “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”
— Abraham Lincoln “The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it.”
— Robert G. Ingersoll “Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not”
— General George Patton “Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
— Albert Einstein “Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.”
— Ira Glass “You are never too old to set another goal, to dream a new dream”
— C. S. Lewis “In this life we cannot always do great things. But we can do small things with great love”
— Mother Teresa “What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
— C. S. Lewis “It always seems impossible until it's done”
— Nelson Mandela “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough”
— Albert Einstein “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.”
— Muhammad Ali “Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of one I copy, the bad points of the others I correct in myself.”
— Confucius “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
— Mark Twain “Faith' means not wanting to know what is true.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche “I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
— Albert Einstein “A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.”
— “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
— Charles Darwin “Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.”
— Albert Einstein “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak.”
— John Berger “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
— Confucius “design is thinking made visual”
— Saul Bass “Sleep is for people without Internet access.”
— “The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.”
— Woody Allen “People have higher demands and shorter attention spans, in order for a site to be effective it either has to be, or at least appear, effortless and usable.”
— “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
— Malcolm X “I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men”
— Leonardo da Vinci “Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
— Niccoló Machiavelli ““Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.””
— Bertrand Russell “The Way is shaped by use,But then the shape is lost.Do not hold fast to shapesBut let sensation flow into the worldAs a river courses down to the sea.”
— DAO DE JING “If the shit fits, wear it.”
— Donald 'Duck' Dunn “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”
— Mahatma Gandhi “Don't count the days, make the days count”
— Muhammad Ali “The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.”
— Confucius “It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.”
— Douglas Adams “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson “If you're going through hell, keep going”
— Sir Winston Churchill “I am not young enough to know everything.”
— Oscar Wilde “I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”
— Frank Sinatra “The web has moved beyond the desktop, and it’s not turning back.”
— Ethan Marcotte “To reccomend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less”
— Oscar Wilde “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt”
— Charles M Schulz “faith – that comfortable sanctuary from the complications of reality.”
— “When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.”
— “More money spent on boob jobs & viagra than on alzheimers research! By 2040 we will have perky boobs, erections and no idea why!”
— “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending”
— “When you realize that under capitalism, a forest isn’t worth anything until it is cut down, you begin to see where the ecological crisis comes from.”
— Adam Idek Hastie “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
— Socrates who was a gas-station attendant in a book published in the 1980s by Dan Millman. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”
— Eleanor Roosevelt “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
— Sir Winston Churchill “He who is not contented with what he has would not be content with what he would like to have.”
— Socrates “The Internet is proof a million monkeys cannot produce the complete works of Shakespeare”
— Robert Wilensky “It is vain to do with more what can be done with less”
— William of Occam “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
— Bruce Lee “"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."”
— John Barrymore “He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
— Lao Tzu “He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
— Lao Tzu “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity”
— Albert Einstein “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”
— Martin Luther King “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.”
— “What we think, we become.”
— Buddha “Mac users swear by their Mac, PC users swear at their PC.”
— “We will either find a way, or make one.”
— Hannibal “We haven't got a plank. Just fucking jump.".”
— “Fact for today: The possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1”
— C3-P0 “Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.”
— Mark Twain “The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”
— George Santayana “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
— Benjamin Spock “I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down at us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
— Sir Winston Churchill “I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.”
— Benny Hill “Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”
— Voltaire “Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
— Mark Twain “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
— Lao Tzu “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
— Mark Twain “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito”
— Dalai Lama “When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
— Lao Tzu “Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.”
— Buddha “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
— Oscar Wilde “I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond”
— Mae West “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
— William Gibson “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook”
— “It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time”
— Steve McQueen “Each morning we are born again.
What we do today is what matters most.”
— Buddha “There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
— Douglas Adams “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
— Oscar Wilde “Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
— Aristotle “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
— Abraham Lincoln “The journey not the arrival matters.”
— T. S. Eliot “Happiness depends upon ourselves”
— Aristotle “The box said 'Required Windows XP or better'. So, I installed Mac OSX.”
— “"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."”
— Mahatma Gandhi “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
— Confucius “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Nelson Mandela “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
— Vincent Van Gogh “Ask the experienced rather than the learned.”
— Arabic proverb “There is no education like adversity.”
— Disraeli “To define is to limit.”
— Oscar Wilde “Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon”
— “"God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins."”
— Mark Twain “Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.”
— Robert Heinlein “Believe that you have it, and you have it.”
— “I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.”
— C. Schultz “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall”
— Nelson Mandela “Whatever you are, be a good one”
— Abraham Lincoln “He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
— St. Francis of Assisi “Never, never, never give up.”
— Sir Winston Churchill “"Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right."”
— Woody Allen “You're comprised of 84 minerals, 23 Elements & 8galls of water spread over 38 trillion cells.
You're built from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you've consumed according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix, small enough to be carried by a sperm.
You're recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur & shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts & rebuilt into our planets most complex living thing.
You're not living on Earth, you are Earth”
— Aubrey Marcus “Laugh in the face of fear. Tweak the nose of terror!”
— “The oldest known vegetable is the pea.”
— “The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.”
— Oscar Wilde “It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”
— “Some people feel the rain. Other just get wet.”
— Bob Marley “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
— Douglas Adams “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.”
— “Don't find fault, find a remedy.”
— Henry Ford “The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.”
— Salvador Dali “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
— Buddha “It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled”
— Mark Twain “Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.”
— “A man grows most tired while standing still.”
— Chinese proverb “I'd far rather be happy than right any day”
— Douglas Adams “Wit is well-bred insolence.”
— Aristotle “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
— Henry David Thoreau “Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater one.”
— William Hazlitt “Condensing fact from the vapour or nuance.”
— Neal Stephenson “Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.”
— WS Gilbert “Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.”
— Mae West “Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.”
— Janis Joplin “Do, or do not. There is no “try”.”
— Master Yoda “"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a low price is forgotten"”
— Benjamin Franklin “The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.”
— Tom Cargill “The Way is shaped by use,
But then the shape is lost.
Do not hold fast to shapes
But let sensation flow into the world
As a river courses down to the sea.”
— DAO DE JING “There is enough for everybody's needs, but not for everybody's greed”
— Mahatma Gandhi “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
— Aristotle “The true potential of the Internet was revealed only when it became ubiquitously available.”
— @stephanierieger “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
— Douglas Adams “Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic.”
— “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
— Louis Adamic “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
— Albert Einstein “The legendary cellist Pablo Casals was asked why he continued to practice at age 90. “Because I think I’m making progress,” he replied.”
— Pablo Casals “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
— Lao Tzu “Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
— H.G. Wells “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
— Ferris Bueller “You see, madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little push.”
— The Joker “A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting.”
— “When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a #bicycle and go out for a spin down the road without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “The best scene Steve McQueen ever had was in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN when Eli Wallach had recaptured the Mexican village and asked The Seven why they took the job.
McQueen takes it upon himself to answer: "I knew a guy once who took off all his clothes and jumped a mess of catcus. Folks asked him why he would do such a thing."
Wallach: "And? What did he say?"
McQueen: "It seemed like a good idea at the time"
To me, that became the ulitmate tough/cool guy answer for the usually incredibly crazy situations they got into: "It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time.”
— “Go without a coat when it’s cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it’s all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you’re made of and what you’re capable of. If you’re never tested, you’ll never define your character.”
— Henry Rollins “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
— Abraham Lincoln “Success is one percent of inspiration and ninety-nine percent of perspiration.”
— Thomas Edison “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
— Albert Einstein “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
— Charlie Chaplin “Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.”
— Albert Einstein “If”
By: Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!”
— Rudyard Kipling “In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back."”
— Charlie Brown “Good design, when it's done well, becomes invisible. It's only when it's done poorly that we notice it.”
— Jared Spool “Fall seven times; stand up eight.”
— “To me good design is as little design as possible.”
— Dieter Rams