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.

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

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

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

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.'

She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.

It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Your body hears everything your mind says.

Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

The mills of God grind slowly.

I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.