“Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.”

— Thomas Watson Jr Via Design Quotes Display

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”

— Charles Mingus via Bobulate, Luke Wroblewski in The Complexity of Simplicity, 2006

“Fuck design, let’s dance.”

— Andre Toet, via Design Quotes Display

“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist.”

— Robert Bringhurst, via Design Quotes Display

“Only while sleeping do you make no mistakes. Mistakes are the privilege of the active person, who can start over and put things right.”

— Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA founder

“I love the comment, “You must love designing for a living.” At that point I usually start to laugh or break into uncontrollable tears.”

— Andrew Lewis

“Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.”

— Douglas Martin via Design Quotes Display

“Designers have a dual duty; contractually to their clients and morally to the later users and recipients of their work.”

— Hans Höger via Design Quotes Display

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

— Leonardo Da Vinci

“Emaciated data-thin designs, in contrast, provoke suspicions—and rightfully so—about the quality of measurement and analysis.”

— Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning Information