Paul Scriven quotes

I'm creative because I did an icon navigation while everyone else on the planet sticks to words? No, it just means I didn't want to stick to convention. If anything you can call it rebellious but certainly not creative.
-- Paul Scriven

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You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutely incredible.

The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.