"The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius."

~ Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

16 May 2012 ·

"Practice safe design: Use a concept."

~ Petrula Vrontikis

5 February 2010 ·

"I wondered what the ultimate super-villain would be. Then it hit me. Lord Adolf Skeletortron."

~ Jason Sweeney

8 July 2009 ·

"Prop 8 upheld? NO SUPERMAN. MORE LIKE HOMOPHOBERMAN."

~ Jason Sweeney

26 May 2009 ·

"Just because i MAKE the internet doesn’t mean i UNDERSTAND the internet"

~ Hannah Stubblefield

14 May 2009 ·

"Every time I watch Mythbusters “debunk” MacGyver, I find myself thinking, “Yeah, but MAYBE it didn’t work because You Are Not MacGyver!"

~ Twitter

12 May 2009 ·

"It was once said that a black man would be president “when pigs fly.” Indeed, 100 days into Obama’s presidency….SWINE FLU"

12 May 2009 ·

"In this biz I essentially hire a bunch of white middle class kids, pay them enormous sums of money to create urban ads"

~ Dan Wieden, CEO Wieden+Kennedy

29 April 2009 ·

"Viral video campaigns” (Put a dollar in a jar if someone has asked you to make their video go “viral”—-now give me the jar so I can go shopping)"

~ Kristin Maverick, Carrot Creative’s Director of Communication

22 April 2009 ·

"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue."

~ Dorthy Parker

17 April 2009 ·

"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English (up to fifty words used in correct context) no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."

~ Carl Sagan

15 April 2009 ·

"…some designers in the future will shift from designing new products and start to design experiences for people to make better decisions about the objects they introduce into their lives or to better utilize the products they already have. The sales and support process at many product companies are ripe for a designer’s guiding hand. It’s mind-boggling to me that companies spend billions and billions of dollars designing and building products and then leave the selling of those products to sales people who are largely untrained and unmotivated and the support to a call center in Bangalore. Zappos, Apple, Amazon, and similar companies have realized this with spectacular results."

~

Dan Formosa of Smart Design

(via kottke)

10 April 2009 ·

"We used to call it ragtime, then blues, then jazz. Now, it’s swing. Ha! Ha! White folks yo’all sho is a mess. Ha! Ha! Swing!"

~ Louis Armstrong (to Bing Crosby)

31 March 2009 ·

"Bargument: To have an argument at a bar. As in, “Sorry I had to leave early, but my roommate got in a bargument with his girlfriend"

~ Luke Chatelain

26 March 2009 ·

Katy Kelley

Marinated in NPR, sauteed in Hip Hop, garnished lightly with Kung-Fu movies, washed down with a Guinness and served with a side order of cleverness. Has been described as “Mary Tyler Moore meets Pee-Wee Herman”.

Delightfully ambiguous with a dollop of intellect. Chilling in Brooklyn, NY.