Aza's Quotes

#1. I need to get onto Aza's ship. I know where it's going. I think I know, even though all I really know, all I've really known since I was five, is that Aza is my universe.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#2. You hold no horrors for me

Maria Dahvana Headley

#3. You can never let your data dictate design. If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating.

Aza Raskin

#4. Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

Gail Carson Levine

#5. I listen to him [Chief Keef] the most. I like his older mixtapes a little better though, because old Chief Keef scared me - I thought he was about to pop up out of nowhere with a hoodie on and shoot me.

Danny Brown

#6. There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.

George R R Martin

#7. Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.

Peter Hook

#8. No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.

Katherine Harris

#9. Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

Aza Raskin

#10. I can't imagine a universe in which I try to unlove her.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#11. When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.

Aza Raskin

#12. When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.

Aza Raskin

#13. I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm. I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up. But my makeup man covered the tattoo with makeup. It took close to two hours.

Sanjay Dutt

#14. I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

Criss Jami

#15. The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#16. We are beasts and this is our consolation.

Joyce Carol Oates

#17. Every time you make the user make a decision they don't care about, you have failed as a designer.

Aza Raskin

#18. Living's a risk, Aza," she says sharply. "Heroes die young. Would you choose to be less than a hero? Here, the sky will light with fire for you. Our funerals are their sunsets.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#19. Never use a warning when you mean undo.

Aza Raskin

#20. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

Ray Bradbury

#21. You know what your problem is?" I ask him.
"Yes. I have a daughter who insists she knows everything."
"That's not your problem, Aba. That's your blessing.

Simone Elkeles

#22. Your first try will be wrong. Budget and design for it.

Aza Raskin

#23. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot.

Kate Atkinson

#24. To the user, the interface is the product.

Aza Raskin

#25. True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

Mahatma Gandhi