"Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer."

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Jeffrey Zeldman

#Character Quotes #Design Quotes #Designer Quotes

“One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!”

Source : Ida M. Tarbell (2012). “The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version”, p.224, Courier Corporation
“I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.”
“People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.”

Source : Nathaniel Fick (2006). “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write.”
“I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.”
“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.”
“I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.”

Source : "Behn Zeitlin, ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Director, Explains Why He Pitched His Film As ‘A League Of Their Own’". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2012.
“You canÂ buy attention (advertising). You canÂ beg for attention from the media (PR). You canÂ bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you canÂ earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.”

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