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

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.

Content informs design; design without content is decoration.

Test everything, including assumptions

Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace."

Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You’ll make mistakes along the way, but that’s where growth and forgiveness come in.

Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.

Comments are proof most people don't read the articles.

When I see Facebook, I feel like Howlin' Wolf must have felt when he first heard Elvis. 'They finally taught a white boy to do this.'

I walk on my sacred path.

The authentic answer is always the question’s vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by keeping it open.

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!

The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.