Quotes

Error over Indecision

Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

— Aaron Burr, Jr.

The Difference Between Talent & Genius

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Leo on Simplicity

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

On Curiousity

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly

— Arnold Edinborough

snagged from http://stanleybronstein.com/law-21-position-yourself-to-be-curious/

On Content & Design

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

Twitter Tweet, 5/6/08

On Great Web Design

There’s a possibility that really great web design receives neither praise nor criticism. It just works.

— Dan Cederholm

overheard on Twitter, 4/25/08

Everybody loves Sharepoint for 6 weeks.

— anonymous

overheard at a recent Gartner Summit I attended

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

from the essay “Self-Reliance”

On Goals & Effort

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.

— Albert Einstein

quote to Walter Daellenbach, May 31, 1915

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