“Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance.

– Stephen Fry, on Steve Jobs

“if you can’t find the button to use the camera on the phone, it doesn’t matter how many megapixels it is

– Adam Greenfield, a former head of design direction at Nokia, Interviewed by NYTimes.com

“Once you overload the user, you train them not to pay attention. More clutter isn’t free. In fact, more clutter is a permanent shift, a desensitization to all the information, not just the last bit.

– Seth Godin, in a instantly popular post The inevitable decline due to clutter