Quotations Weblog

LukeW has a nice list of quotations about design and interface. For the complete list here is a link to their site:

• LukeW: Interface Design Quotes

These are some of my favorites from their list:

So much focus has been put on “getting a website”, but very few companies have considered the reasons their customers might go to their website. We’re not there to see a silly little animation of your product. We’re there to get our questions answered. I wish more companies would design with that in mind.

Wired News has a list of quotations from Steve Jobs. They are very well attributed and some of them are truly classic.

• Wired News: Steve Jobs’ Best Quotes Ever

You can see all of the Wired News quotes at the link above, but here are some of my favorites from the list:

For all of our Steve Jobs’ Quotes:

• Steve Jobs Quotes – The Quotations Page

Ever since we have moved to a smaller home, I have been happier. This has made me think that the voluntary simplicity ideal has some validity to it. I have found a weblog that brings some of those ideas alive from the About.com network.

• Frugal Living

It’s more about living cheaply than voluntary simplicity, but there is some overlap in the ideas. I’ve enjoyed reading this weblog over the last few weeks. Give it a try and see if you are entertained by its quirky ideas.

This comic from Sheldon is one of those rare comics that concentrates on quotations. Unfortunately, the quote from John Adams is a simplification.

I actually like the Sheldon version of the quotation better. It’s much more succinct and tells the story in a much briefer form.

I read the Ward-O-Matic every day. I found Ward’s website when he did a review of why Polar Express is so creepy, but his excellent writing and casual demeanor has kept me reading every day. Somehow, I missed this entry last March, but he linked to it.

• The Ward-O-Matic: The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal

In this entry, he comments on a DVD that he watched that playfully entertained the idea that the city workers that cover graffiti are actually artists on par with Rothko and Malevich. After looking at some of Ward’s photography of graffiti removal, suddenly the world is filled with unknowing artists everywhere.

These are my favorites:

I love this photo. Paint, graffiti, and everything else that man can do cannot win against rust. Rust trumps all.

When I first saw this picture, I read the sign as saying, “Anger High Voltage” and nodded my head gravely. “Yes,” I said to myself, “Anger IS a high voltage.”