Bill Buxton Quotes

Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name.

Bill Buxton

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• I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • You

• I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Write
  • Songwriter

• I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Husband
  • Voice
  • Turns

• The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Language
  • Questions
  • Someone

• I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • World
  • Free
  • Wish

• I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • World
  • Law
  • Day

• People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Money
  • Support
  • Government

• I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard. Because I don't know why I was saved. I don't know.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Imitation

• I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Book
  • First
  • Author

• In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'

  

  Jack Ma
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Money

• I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Great
  • Water
  • Rock

• I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Like
  • Talk
  • Magical

• I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Alone
  • Grateful

• I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Think

• I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Life
  • Die
  • Star

• As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

  

  Charles Francis Richter
  • Experience
  • Single

• You must not grieve so heavily. Better are good than evil omens. though I am weak and small, Spumed with Dylan's wave, I shall be better for you Than three hundred shares of salmon.

  

  Taliesin
  • Good
  • Small
  • Evil

• If the people allow something to happen, it's the right thing.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • People
  • Right Thing

• Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name.

  

  Bill Buxton
  • Experience
  • Name
  • Products