Mike Davidson Quotes

#1. All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

Kate Moss

#2. I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board.

Mike Davidson

#3. Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people.

Mike Davidson

#4. You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.

Mike Davidson

#5. Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.

Mike Davidson

#6. For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

Mike Davidson

#7. Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.

Alan Huffman

#8. Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

Willa Gibbs

#9. The ability of the countries within the region to cooperate and establish good-neighborly relations ... will be an important criterion for evaluating their prospects of full integration with the European Union,

Martti Ahtisaari

#10. I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

Mike Davidson

#11. Are you hearing unusual sounds or voices?" the doctor asked.
"Help us, oh God, it hurts," the boxes of cotton screamed.
"Not exactly," I said.

Denis Johnson

#12. If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.

Mike Davidson

#13. Run, my child, run.

Susan Dennard

#14. I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

William Shatner

#15. The light that brings the dawn.

George R R Martin

#16. We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet.

Mike Davidson

#17. He took her hand from her head and held it in his. "Your beauty could make a rose blush."
"Are you ... drunk?

Michelle M. Pillow

#18. Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#19. O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let me
wear a Walkman ...

David Levithan

#20. A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

William Stanley Jevons

#21. Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities.

Mike Davidson

#22. The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.

Michael A. Stackpole

#23. If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe I'd do it, but it really means very little to me. We're mavericks over here, what can we say?

Mike Davidson

#24. We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood.

Mike Davidson

#25. People can do things completely against their nature, completely. It's like some tiny earthquake comes roaring through your body and soul, and it's the only earthquake you'll ever feel. But it damages so much, cracks the foundations of your life forever.

Sherman Alexie

#26. It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.

Mike Davidson

#27. We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

Mike Davidson

#28. For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.

Mike Davidson

#29. Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site.

Mike Davidson

#30. We are constantly working towards the highest level of compliance possible.

Mike Davidson

#31. Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file.

Mike Davidson

#32. All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy, and all the females look like the same, and I think the guys are just way too big.

Mike Judge