Michael Beruit has a great post over on Design Observer: Does anyone devote as much energy to avoiding simple, sensible solutions as the modern graphic designer?
His post is full of some great quotes pertaining to the silly things we do:
straining for novelty
Graphic design is easy, of course, so we kill ourselves trying to make it [...]
The winner of this year’s Great American Think-Off has been announced. Blaine Rada argued that Cooperation Benefits Society more than competition does. His closing quote from JFK seems more appropriate now than it ever has been:
United there is nothing we can’t do, divided there is nothing we can.
Congratulations, Blaine, and congratulations New York Mills Regional [...]
it is always wise to err on the side of life
-G.W.
Which, I think, can only be accurately rebutted with a quote from John Stewart:
Wha-Wha-Whaaaa…!?
Reading through this article on working with designers I came across a quote attributed to Bill Cosby:
The only sure way to failure is to try to please everybody.
And a variation here:
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Everyone loves Bill Cosby, right? This will come in [...]
Another quote to add to the bag of goodies. This one came out a few months ago. I remember reading it, but forgot about if for a while until just recently, when I was discussing CMS solutions again with some people. This is from Jefferey Veen:
Open source content management software sucks. It sucks really badly. [...]
I’ve added a new category to the Mnteractive blog: quotes. I’m always finding great one-liners while surfing the blogs. I often need a quote for a presentation, because–as we all know–no one believes you, but if you quote someone else, then it must be true. The first few quotes come from the Gaping Void:
I really [...]