Phrases relatable to designers & developers; often overused, sometimes cliche, sometimes stolen, sometimes brilliant. Tweet sized for your convenience.

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• A designer free to choose will always choose Helvetica.
• What do I think of HTML5? I think it would be a very good idea.
• If you do not understand yourself, how can you expect to understand your users?
• Design is its own reward.
• To me, being a designer doesn't mean knowing design; it means taking pleasure in designing.
• Practical IE development and marketing consists of ignoring ever other browser.
• Poor design is simply an opportunity to re-design.
• A good designer creates form from function, function from form, thought from ideas.
• Java paralyzes the mind and leaves one so unable to think like a programmer; so that by the time these kids are out of school their foundation is hopelessly ruined
• When the problem is complexity, the cure might just be ruby.
• Java is creating all the right technology for all the wrong reasons and in ways that make me shiver.
• Design is a verb.
• A designer is someone who sees misunderstanding & tries to right it, sees bad design & tries to stop it.
• It has yet to be proven that insert_favorite_hated_company_here has any value.
• Good programmers solve problems; great programmers prevent them.
• We should take care not to make ruby our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no _why.
• Less code is more code
• Funny how just when you think Skype can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
• A good design is allot of prettiness distilled into few pixels.
• Don't fight js, use it. Die you Coffeescript bastards.
• Don't fight developers, use them
• And at the end of the day, if the design's no good, I'll live to design another day.
• I just git commit, then wait until someone comes around to fork me.
• Good design happens when you get your content right.
• Any programmer can make something complex, great programmers make it simple.
• Pay for great design and you will get good design thrown in. Pay for mediocre design and you get neither.
• As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a freelancer is not having to get up in the morning.
• As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a freelancer is so I don't have to wear pants.
• As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason Skype5 increased video resolution was so we all had to start wearing pants.
• Focusing on one bug/problem creates blindness to solutions, take a step back - do something else & a solution will come.
• Good design is the art of answering the obvious.
• Implementations change, APIs shouldn't.
• A master programmer knows how to grow, he is never finished.
• A master designer knows how to grow, he is never finished.
• A successful project is one where when you look back and all the sweat, all the hours, all the frustrations were worth it.
• Good design is evolutionary, its a natural development of the content.
• I'm not against C; I'm just afraid of it.
• There is no happiness in finishing, only in the anticipation of it.
• Microsoft is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
• Life is too short to use tools you hate, use what you love, not whats trendy, what pays well, or what others tell you to use.
• Sleep cures all problems.
• Code less, think more.
• Debugging removes bugs, programming puts them in.
• How do you know a filesystem has finished mounting? The pull-out icon.
• Jesus never loses his work, he saves.
• Programmers only date GIFs.
• Why are dynamically typed languages more productive? In statically typed languages you cant move.
• C++ is C for masochists.
• Progressive enhancement means better experience for better users.
• Everything is designed. Few things are designed well. ~Brian Reed
• People ignore design that ignores people. ~Frank Chimero
• Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent. ~Joe Sparano
• Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration. ~Jeffrey Zeldman
• Don't be afraid to turn of the guides and live off the grid. Be an adventurous & creative designer, not a slave to formulas.
• Friends don't let friends run php4.
• Design is thoughtful; it reflects the purpose, function, use & content. It is not just the art of making things pretty.
• If I've learned three things from Apple its that: 1. That great design is invisible 2. Less is more. 3. You only need two things.
• Its spelled cURL not Curl not CURL not curl.
• As a WordPress theme discussion grows longer, the probability of a GPL debate reaches 1 (100%).
• Design the obvious, nothing more, nothing less.
• "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." ~Douglas Adams (Mostly Harmless)
• Design for idiots first, users second.
• "Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful." ~John Maeda
• When all else fails; Read the Fucking Manual.