Veen Quotes & Sayings

A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace. — Robert Orben

To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative. — Jeffrey Veen

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving. — Jeffrey Veen

He looked like you ripped his heart out of his chest, threw it to
the ground, and stomped all over it while singing a jaunty tune."
Annwyl shrugged at Morfyd's bemused expression. "I might have
seen that look before on his brother."
"Perhaps when you stabbed our father?"
Annwyl laughed. "No. Then he just looked proud. — G.A. Aiken

If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money. — Ricky Van Veen

The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward. — Colum McCann

Difficult situations breed astonishing results. — Jeffrey Veen

On the Web you have to sum up what your piece of content is in one link or nobody is going to watch it. That's the same thing I've been hearing from TV executives - is we need a program that you can have on the side of a bus and someone can watch it go by and get what the show is and want to watch it. — Ricky Van Veen

I am an inexhaustible source of awkwardness. — Milena Veen

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures. — Jeffrey Veen

I think something you are missing and have missed out on your whole life, Jenna, is the difference between being fucked and being loved....I want to show you how you can be loved..... — Lila Veen

If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long. — Ricky Van Veen

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons. — Abu Bakr

Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness of breath can be a symptom of heart problems. In her case, the much more likely cause is the elephant on her chest. For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. That is the elephant. Until the playing field has veen leveled and lingering stereotypes are gone, you can't even ask the question. — Sally Ride

All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo fan. But if you did an episode of a network comedy that parodied Halo, most of your audience wouldn't even get it. — Ricky Van Veen

When people tell you Web content is better than television content, they probably don't mean that, they probably enjoy the format of the Web better than the format of TV. — Ricky Van Veen

For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving. — Sarah Lacy

I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them. — Ricky Van Veen

One of the things I firmly believe about seemingly risky decisions is that you can't fully imagine how things can be better while you're in the thing you don't quite like. — Jeffrey Veen

It would be tedious to attempt a phonetic reproduction of Mr. Sage's utterances. Enough to say that they were genteel to a fantastic degree. "Aye thot Aye heeard somewon teeking may neem in veen," may give some idea of his rendering of the above sentence. Let it go at that. — Anonymous

National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies. — Ricky Van Veen

If you even *need* a government, added Stig, you are a life-form flawed beyond redemption. — Jasper Fforde

Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently. — Ricky Van Veen

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them. — Aberjhani

It seemed to me that life was a giant ice skating rink, and I was the only one who didn't have skates. Most people fear death. I don't. I'm only afraid of not living. I don't want to be the one behind the ice rink fence, watching other people having fun. — Milena Veen

Web-site creation isn't something you learn once and then check off on your to do list. — Jeffrey Veen

Math is easy; design is hard. — Jeffrey Veen

Day by day, the number of devices, platforms,
and browsers that need to work with your site grows.
Responsive web design represents a fundamental shift
in how we'll build websites for the decade to come. — Jeffrey Veen

Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything. — Ricky Van Veen

Viral videos aren't just about being funny. They're about identity creation. — Ricky Van Veen

Good design can't fix broken business models. — Jeffrey Veen

Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future ... — Mitt Romney

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers. — William Ames