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Quotes to inspire news nerds.
#ADRIA, F.
"We didn't create dishes. We create preparations to create many dishes." - Ferran Adria
#BOURDAIN, A.
"This bus makes many stops. I have no expectation that you will like all of them." - @Bourdain
#BOYER, B.
"Election maps lie." - @brianboyer
"Who are our users? What do they need?" - @brianboyer
#BROWN, T.
"Do the thing I'm excited to do, or do what needs to get done? Answer: get excited about what needs to get done." - @nicewebtype
#CHWAST, S.
"If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help." - Seymour Chwast
#FULLER, B.
"I see god in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably." - Buckminster Fuller
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller
#HERBERT, F.
"Specialists are not to be trusted. Specialists are masters of exclusion, experts in the narrow." - Dune, Book 4
#LEVY, M.
"No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail." - Marion Levy
#MARS, R.
"Design only works if you don't have to work to make it work." - @romanmars
#MAU, B.
"Imitate. ... Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable." - Bruce Mau
#RAMS, D.
"Good design makes a product useful." - Dieter Rams
"Good design makes a product understandable." - Dieter Rams
"Good design is unobtrusive." - Dieter Rams
"Good design is honest." - Dieter Rams
"Good design is thorough down to the last detail." - Dieter Rams
"Good design is as little design as possible." - Dieter Rams
#REDDING, L.
"Satisfying our own lofty demands is usually a lot harder than appeasing any client." - Linds Redding
#SCANLAN, C.
"The easiest thing for someone to do is quit reading." - Chip Scanlan
#STANTON, D.
"Publishing data is not journalism. Publishing analysis is journalism." - @gotoplanb
#SWARTZ, A.
"Be curious... Say yes to everything... Assume nobody else has any idea what they’re doing either." - @aaronsw
#TUFTE, E.
"You want straightforward, conventional design – what's luscious is the content. Often we see the opposite." - Tufte
#UNKNOWN
"The gold medal goes to the simple dive done well."
#WAITE, M.
"Demos, not memos." - @mattwaite
#XKCD
"Pet peeve #208: Geographic profile maps which are basically just population maps." - XKCD
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ghost commented Nov 16, 2012

Salóm G.

"Good design doesn´t need explanation"

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