FDND Quotes

In need of a frontend quote? These quotes are used in the frontend design and development courses of the two year associate degree programme Frontend Design & Development, at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science.

“Believe you can and you are halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt
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“The imposter doesn’t see that failure is a normal part of life.” DR Jessamy Hibberd
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“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded” Buddha
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Children don't decide how they're carried, that's what parents do. Egor Kloos
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This is for everyone. Tim Berners-Lee
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The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect. Tim Berners-Lee
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Pictures are a very very powerful way to help us clarify the complexity of ideas. Dan Roam
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Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better then that? Paula Scher
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When I was working at Blizzard I was making UI flow diagrams and I noticed that a few engineers were hanging the documents on their walls for reference. Stone Librande
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin
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Understanding is always in some sense retrospective. Terry Eagleton
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Know Your Audience. Your Speech Is About Them, Not You. Marjorie North
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Poorly designed code usually takes more code to do the same things, often because the code quite literally does the same thing in several places. Martin Fowler
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Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. Epictetus
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Even the most complex systems must depend on foundational rules, and CSS is no different. Heydon Pickering
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Start with the small screen first, then expand until it looks like shit. Time for a breakpoint! Stephen Hay
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It is the nature of the web to be flexible, and it should be our role as designers and developers to embrace this flexibility, and produce pages which, by being flexible, are accessible to all. John Allsopp
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A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed. Massimo Vignelli
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The best way to have good ideas is to have many ideas. Linus Pauling
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Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people. Steve Jobs
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You can't achieve excellence in life if you fear opinion. Janna Cachola
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We write to make sense of it all. Wallace Stegner
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Cleanliness makes it easier to see the details. Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
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A column is easy to read if it's wide enough to accommodate an average of 10 words per line. Josef Müller-Brockmann
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A strong visual hierarchy is achieved when there is a clear viewing order to the visual elements on a screen. Most people don't notice visual hierarchy but it is one of the easiest ways to strengthen (or weaken) a design. Joshua Porter
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There are few glitches and bugs in the Matrix. Deyth Banger
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Over the years I’ve tried out a lot of different ways of learning CSS and JS: books, online courses, articles, video tutorials… But for me, there’s really no substitute for learning by doing. Michelle Barker
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There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you. Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Fail faster, so you can succeed sooner. David Kelley
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With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship - it's whatever you can imagine. Cristhopher Miller
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If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there's some way to do it. Walt Disney
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On all occasions there are better solutions waiting us to be found if we do subtle analysis with sharp-witted minds. Prof. Salam Al Shereida
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You know you are working on clean code when [everything] turns out to be pretty much what you expected. Robert C. Martin
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There are two hard problems in computer science: Cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors. Martin Fowler
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