1,339 Quotes About Design

Test small, bet big. Build on what works, get rid of what doesn't. Repeat.

Here’s the cold, hard truth: ideas are cheap. Product follow-through is where the money is spent and made.

The numbers should speak for themselves, but they don’t. Growth metrics are the misunderstood teenagers of the tech world with murky intentions.

To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.

In a clock, stop but one wheel and you stop every wheel, because they are dependent upon one other. So when God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how do you know how many things depend upon this thing? God may have some work to do twenty years hence that depends on this passage of providence that falls out this day or this week.

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.

design is so important because chaos is so hard

You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.

So the syntax of the regular-expression language is awful; there are various incompatible forms of the language; and the quotation conventions are baroquen [sic]. While regular expression languages are domain-specific languages, they are bad ones. Part of the value of examining regular expressions is to experience how bad things can be.