Given how fast framework complexity has escalated in the past couple of years, it feels like we’re at the point where not using a framework for web dev could be a strategic advantage for a new startup or company
— Baldur Bjarnason
When JavaScript is the first tool we reach for to solve every problem, we risk restricting access rather than expanding it.
—Jeremy Wagner, Responsible JavaScript
Put into strict UX terms, some things cannot be designed in a human-centric and empathetic way. And those things should not be built.
—Eva PenzeyMoog, Design For Safety
The idea that it’s alright to do whatever unethical thing is currently the industry norm is widespread in tech, and dangerous.
—Eva PenzeyMoog, Design For Safety
The world cannot be understood without numbers. And it cannot be understood with numbers alone.
— Hans Rosling, Factfulness
Should I press “play” on the toaster?
— A thing I said, just now.
It’s the damnedest thing: The dead abandon you; then, with the passage of time, you abandon the dead.
— Jennifer Senior
One of the biggest paradoxes of doing consisently good work is that it starts to make you think that good work is what makes you a good person.
— @DesigningInward, blowing my mind at #UXfest.
When you measure include the measurer.
I arrive at the bus station and immediately long to get away so I can miss the place again from the safety of some distance.
— Colin Walsh
Cynicism is a theory of everything.
— Rutger Bregman
Then make them real pages.
Completely agree with you there!
Big modals that are basically fake web pages—even if coded accessibly—feel deceptive, lacking in material honesty.
It feels like everything is falling to pieces outside, but remember that fundamentally, most people are actually nice to each other and when people aren’t nice to each other, it’s generally out of fear and hurt.
— Dan Hon
I felt it right there in my chest, the cool clutch of a cliché: my heart sank.
— Machines Like Me
My radio, with its irregular blobs of solder on a board, appears no less a wonder than consciousness itself arising from matter.
— Machines Like Me
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Control freak—now you say “Control freak who?”
It was a comforting myth, and one I embraced because I had seen comfort, without realising it was only a myth.
— Abolish Silicon Valley
We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.
— The Human Use Of Human Beings
In elevating frontend to the land of Serious Code we have not just made things incredibly over-engineered but we have also set fire to all the ladders that we used to get up here in the first place.
The real measure of information is not in the symbols we send—it’s in the symbols we could have sent, but did not.
— A Mind At Play
The events of the world do not form an orderly queue, like the English. They crowd around chaotically, like Italians.
— The Order Of Time
Don’t design to control; design to give control.
— Gerry McGovern
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
— Groucho Marx
…and all the fond nothings of daily life should clothe themselves in elemental sparks and shoot with fiery speed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, from hemisphere to hemisphere…
— A Thread Across The Ocean
Conquerers live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.
— The Stone Sky
If a religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in superhuman order, then Soviet Communism was no less a religion than Islam.
— Sapiens
Like a government diverting money from defence to education, humans diverted energy from biceps to neurons.
— Sapiens
So many ways to screw the pooch, and just one staggeringly complex, scrupulously modelled, endlessly rehearsed, indefatigably tested way to succeed.
— Hidden Figures
They sat there in the evening of the last day. And, though there was no actual point to it, they loved each other.
— The Best Of Richard Matheson
Photographs are photons on flypaper.
— The Ursa Major Moving Group
Language is imperfect; poetry, perfectly imperfect.
— Time Travel
And since we are speculating, we’ll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption.
— A Fire Upon The Deep
Technology isn’t destiny, no matter how inexorable its evolution may seem.
— The Dream Machine
The world spun the sun to the Center of the sky and then downward once more.
— Grass
The circle of life on Ceres was so small you could see the curve.
— Leviathan Wakes
The flower responded to the star.
— Helliconia Spring