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I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth from orbit.

— Ursula K. Le Guin, Solitude

Now, if you’re one of those people, then, yea, I guess I was judging you too.

— also literally what you said.

Yes, I am judgy about people willfully endangering others.

— literally what you said.

When the daily parade of the troubles you made gets you down, just consider the fate of the wide open space from town to town.

— Microdisney

The idea that only Designers should Design strikes me as a kind of protective gatekeeping, not unlike the idea that only Priests know the word of God, and it should be spoken in Latin.

— @PeterMe

… blogging is great isn’t it? You don’t have to write every week or every day. Just write when you have something you want to write about, and up it pops in RSS feed readers, or posted to Twitter, or whatever. Lovely.

— Phil Gyford

By theorizing well in advance of data, science fiction provides a framework for developing and testing ethical standards for the treatment of AI.

— Amanda Rees

https://www.noemamag.com/tales-of-technology-and-faith/

It’s a great time to be learning and investing in the primitives of the web platform over transitory framework abstractions.

— Jim Nielsen

Spotify is trying to do to podcasting what Facebook did to “having your own website”.

— John Gruber

Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept.

— Jon Postel, 1943 – 1998

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

— Marcus Aurelius, 121 – 180

My heart besieged by anger, my mind a gap of danger.

— Séamus Heaney, The Road To Derry

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.

— @MCHammer