Bravado Quotes & Sample Searches

I just added more pretentious quotes and showcasing searches to Imagery's front page. If you have another quote on interfaces you love, or think of a good search query to showcase Imagery (and correct my male-bias), please let me hear it.

"The interface is the software."

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"Our interfaces are stories we tell ourselves to ward off the senselessness, memory palaces built out of silicon and light." [Far and away my favorite!]

"Steven Johnson, Interface Culture, p242

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"It's the interface, stupid."

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"The interface came into the world under the cloak of efficiency,and it is now emerging—chrysalis-style—as a genuine art form."

"Steven Johnson, Interface Culture, p242

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"We will come to think of interface design as a kind of art form—perhaps the art form of the next century."

"Steven Johnson, Interface Culture, p213

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"If the visual task is contrast, comparison, and choice—as so often it is—then the more relevant information within eyespan, the better.Vacant, low-density displays, the dreaded posterization of data spread over pages and pages, require viewers to rely on visual memory—a weak skill—to make a contrast, a comparison, a choice." [This one's long but surprisingly relevant.]

"Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning Information, p. 50

July24 Update:

People who get hooked on computers.. don't become high-tech junkies because their machines remind them of their Rolodexes; they're junkies because their machines do things they never thought possible. Interface design should reflect this newness, this range of possibility.

Steven Johnson, Interface Culture, p95