Khoi Quotes

#1. Remember the Hottentots?" asked James. "They've become the Khoi now, which means that the Germans will have to retire that wonderful word of theirs, Hottentotenpotentatenstantenattentater, which means, as you know, one who attacks the aunt of a Hottentot potentate.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

Khoi Vinh

#3. Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

Hugo Black

#4. I think if you took away all the designers and automated the process tomorrow, the end result would be really, really dissatisfying and disturbing to a lot of people. So, I think there's a lot of value that print designers have.

Khoi Vinh

#5. I think the thing about the Internet is that it has so many characteristics that can be easily construed to be similar or almost identical to print that it can be misleading.

Khoi Vinh

#6. You have this really powerful technological infrastructure that can do really tremendous things. At the same time, it's never going to be as flexible as we'd like it to be. Just by nature of web technology.

Khoi Vinh

#7. Encyclopedia-selling was known to be the last resort of the feckless, the inept, and the desperate

Margaret Atwood

#8. I've lived on my own since 17, and when I found I wasn't working all the time, I ended up starting a small theatre company called Red One Theatre.

Joe Dinicol

#9. I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.

Khoi Vinh

#10. One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.

Matt Haig

#11. What's descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive.

Alistair Begg

#12. I think there's a huge - there's a huge desire in me to make sense of the world in a way that I think you can trace back to that early disruption, this idea of wanting to compensate for that really kind of traumatic experience and sort of seeing its impact on my immediate and extended family.

Khoi Vinh

#13. Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

#14. See the world with the innocence of children.
Approach the world with the daring of children.
Love the world with the readiness of children.
Heal the world with the purity of children.
Change the world with the wisdom of children.

Neale Donald Walsch

#15. Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

Gabrielle Zevin

#16. I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?

Sue Monk Kidd

#17. I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with this added element of behavior.

Khoi Vinh

#18. You have to have a balance and understand that as much as you would like to have absolute control over everything, it's just not realistic.

Khoi Vinh

#19. When his brain died, all of the memories
held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate
in a flood of chemical reactions.

Dan Brown

#20. I think the obstacles are the same as the opportunities, is the way we like to look at them.

Khoi Vinh

#21. I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.

Khoi Vinh

#22. You have to design a story that might appear on the front page of the newspaper for the website. You don't have to design it in such a way that it can be self contained, that it makes sense if you never hit the front page of it.

Khoi Vinh

#23. I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Guttenberg.

Khoi Vinh

#24. I think there's a really selfish part of me that wishes I had the tools that I had today in the context of a designer practicing in the middle part of the 20th century when creating a single expression of an idea was the norm.

Khoi Vinh

#25. I think now we're seeing the pendulum switch back to this idea where conversations are more important, if not more important than documents.

Khoi Vinh

#26. These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.

Anna Quindlen

#27. I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.

Khoi Vinh

#28. Even though more people can build websites today than even 10 years ago, I think there's probably even less really deep understand of how a good website gets built than there was even then.

Khoi Vinh

#29. Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.

Khoi Vinh

#30. Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

Elayne Boosler

#31. Madness,' said Daniel. 'Americans. Playing spy games as the world falls apart.

Adam Baker

#32. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Ronald Reagan

#33. Even though the means of production are more available than ever, I think the true expertise is as rare as ever.

Khoi Vinh