Brion Pampell > Brion's Quotes

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“You can’t understand most of the important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close,”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption

“There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― Lewis Carroll

“A problem well put is half solved.”
― John Dewey

“The world isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as it was designed to work. And we’re the ones who designed it. Which means we fucked up.”
― Mike Monteiro, Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

“Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.”
― Joe Sparano

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
― J.M. Barrie

“Begrudgingly identifying Peter Pan as your spirit animal.”
― Heidi Priebe, The Comprehensive ENFP Survival Guide

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
― Henry Ford

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”
― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
― John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity

“Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.”
― Heinrich Heine, On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
― steve jobs

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

“The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.”
― Tom Peterson

“Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.”
― Ralph Caplan

“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.”
― Robert L. Peters

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, a prototype is worth a thousand meetings”
― IDEO.org

“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”
― Elon Musk

“Ethics cannot be a side hustle.”
― Mike Monteiro, Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

“Empathy is a pretty word for exclusion. I’ve seen all-male all-white teams taking “empathy workshops” to see how women think. If you want to know how women would use something you’re designing, get a woman on your design team. They’re not extinct. We don’t need to study them. We can hire them!”
― Mike Monteiro, Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
― Neil Gaiman

“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

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche