Rod Motta - User Experience Visual Designer » Quotes http://rodmotta.com/blog Design, Social Media, Business & Everything in Between. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:23:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Quote: Making the simple and the complicated http://rodmotta.com/blog/2010/01/21/quote-making-the-simple-and-the-complicated/ http://rodmotta.com/blog/2010/01/21/quote-making-the-simple-and-the-complicated/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:38:52 +0000 Rod Motta http://rodmotta.com/blog/?p=220 “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
- Charles Mingus

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satisfy everyone.”

From the book The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman.

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- Warren Buffett, in his letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway (PDF) [via tipwn]

]]> http://rodmotta.com/blog/2009/05/14/quote-approval-though-is-not-the-goal-of-investing/feed/ 1 Quote: Truly elegant design http://rodmotta.com/blog/2009/05/06/quote-truly-elegant-design/ http://rodmotta.com/blog/2009/05/06/quote-truly-elegant-design/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 19:58:55 +0000 Rod Motta http://rodmotta.com/blog/?p=142 “Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.”

- David Lewis

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- B.J. Fogg

]]> http://rodmotta.com/blog/2009/03/13/quote-psychological-and-economic-theories/feed/ 0 Quote: Getting it right at first time http://rodmotta.com/blog/2009/03/11/quote-about-getting-right-at-first-try/ http://rodmotta.com/blog/2009/03/11/quote-about-getting-right-at-first-try/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:40:21 +0000 Rod Motta http://rodmotta.wordpress.com/?p=7 “If Ernest Hemingway, James Mitchener, Neil Simon, Franck Lloyd Wright, and Pablo Picaso could not get it right the first time, what makes you think that you will?

- Paul Heckel

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