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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless

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Topic

User experience Fools Design

Author

Douglas Adams

Source

Mostly Harmless

Medium

Novel

Genre

Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Adams, Douglas. Mostly Harmless. William Heinemann/Harmony Books, 1992, ch. 12.

Form ever follows function.

Louis Henri Sullivan

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Topic

Design

Author

Louis Henri Sullivan

Source

The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1896 1890s 19th century

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Sullivan, Louis Henri. "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered." Lippincott's Magazine, Mar. 1896.

That's been one of my mantras-focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

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Design Simplicity

Speaker

Steve Jobs

Source

BusinessWeek

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Jobs, Steve. "Steve Jobs: 'There's Sanity Returning'." Interviewed by Andy Reinhardt. BusinessWeek, 25 May 1998.