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Top 15 Mike Monteiro Quotes (2025 Update)

Mike Monteiro Quote: “It should freak you out that gangsters can agree on a code of behavior but designers can’t. Crime is more organized than design.”

1. “It should freak you out that gangsters can agree on a code of behavior but designers can’t. Crime is more organized than design.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “Empathy is a pretty word for exclusion. I’ve seen all-male all-white teams taking “empathy workshops” to see how women think. If you want to know how women would use something you’re designing, get a woman on your design team. They’re not extinct. We don’t need to study them. We can hire them!”

2. “Empathy is a pretty word for exclusion. I’ve seen all-male all-white teams taking “empathy workshops” to see how women think. If you want to know how women would use something you’re designing, get a woman on your design team. They’re not extinct. We don’t need to study them. We can hire them!”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “Social media has been described as more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol, and is now so entrenched in the lives of young people that it is no longer possible to ignore it when talking about young people’s mental health issues.” Shirley Cramer, chief executive, Royal Society for Public Health.”

3. “Social media has been described as more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol, and is now so entrenched in the lives of young people that it is no longer possible to ignore it when talking about young people’s mental health issues.” Shirley Cramer, chief executive, Royal Society for Public Health.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “You are responsible for what you put into the world. And you are responsible for the effects those things have upon the world.”

4. “You are responsible for what you put into the world. And you are responsible for the effects those things have upon the world.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “For the record, I have nothing against art. I love art. I’m an artist myself. I’m also a designer. I understand the difference between the two. Design is the solution to a problem, but that problem is never your self-esteem.”

5. “For the record, I have nothing against art. I love art. I’m an artist myself. I’m also a designer. I understand the difference between the two. Design is the solution to a problem, but that problem is never your self-esteem.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “If you believe you need to do what your boss wants because they’re paying you, you also need to believe the doctor should provide the oxycodone if the addict is willing to pay for it. The exchange of cash for services doesn’t supersede ethics. Following unethical orders won’t keep you out of jail.”

6. “If you believe you need to do what your boss wants because they’re paying you, you also need to believe the doctor should provide the oxycodone if the addict is willing to pay for it. The exchange of cash for services doesn’t supersede ethics. Following unethical orders won’t keep you out of jail.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “As long as you are a designer, you have a responsibility to make the world better for the rest of humanity. If you are a designer, you are a human being first. It is your job to stop those that would denigrate humanity for their own selfish benefit.”

7. “As long as you are a designer, you have a responsibility to make the world better for the rest of humanity. If you are a designer, you are a human being first. It is your job to stop those that would denigrate humanity for their own selfish benefit.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “I intend to show you that design is a political act. What we choose to design and more importantly, what we choose not to design and, even more importantly, who we exclude from the design process – these are all political acts.”

8. “I intend to show you that design is a political act. What we choose to design and more importantly, what we choose not to design and, even more importantly, who we exclude from the design process – these are all political acts.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “Ethics cannot be a side hustle.”

9. “Ethics cannot be a side hustle.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “Beware a designer who wants you to like them more than they want to do good work.”

10. “Beware a designer who wants you to like them more than they want to do good work.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “We need to challenge the idea that a CEO’s primary mission is to make money for shareholders.”

11. “We need to challenge the idea that a CEO’s primary mission is to make money for shareholders.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “People don’t see the things they’re rewarded for as problems to fix.”

12. “People don’t see the things they’re rewarded for as problems to fix.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “That’s it: design is the plan that gets us to our goal.”

13. “That’s it: design is the plan that gets us to our goal.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “Jack’s main priority was making sure he couldn’t be accused of having made a decision. His obsession with remaining impartial has made him impotent to act, even on the side of decency. He wants to be able to cast blame on an algorithm, rather than his own actions. That way he wouldn’t have any blood on his hands.”

14. “Jack’s main priority was making sure he couldn’t be accused of having made a decision. His obsession with remaining impartial has made him impotent to act, even on the side of decency. He wants to be able to cast blame on an algorithm, rather than his own actions. That way he wouldn’t have any blood on his hands.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “Here we get to the point: design disasters usually spring from the faulty notion that design is art not craft.”

15. “Here we get to the point: design disasters usually spring from the faulty notion that design is art not craft.”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “Y Combinator’s Paul Graham, one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful men, once told the New York Times:1 “I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg. There was a guy once who we funded who was terrible. I said: ‘How could he be bad? He looks like Zuckerberg!”

16. “Y Combinator’s Paul Graham, one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful men, once told the New York Times:1 “I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg. There was a guy once who we funded who was terrible. I said: ‘How could he be bad? He looks like Zuckerberg!”

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Mike Monteiro Quote: “There’s a big difference between defending work, which a designer must know how to do, and being defensive about work, which a designer should never do.”

17. “There’s a big difference between defending work, which a designer must know how to do, and being defensive about work, which a designer should never do.”

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