Someone Once Said…

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. —Edgar Allan Poe, “Eleonora” US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 – 1849)

If you are on Craigslist to get a sofa, and you see one for free. You think there’s something tragically wrong with it – maybe there are bedbugs. But if you see a sofa on there for $2,500, you think ‘oh man, that sofa must be amazing’. It’s the same thing with art – you […]

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. —Arthur Schopenhauer

“Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.” —Joseph Joubert

“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep […]

Excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude. —Ralph Marston You don’t learn to be excellent, you learn to work your butt off and do your best in everything. Excellence will be the likely outcome.

I would say my biggest pet peeve related to the industry would be people focusing on technology instead of design, standards instead of users, and validation rather than innovation. Web standards and best practices are noble goals, but all too often in our community people forget they are a means to an end, not the […]