You can set out to make a painting, but you can’t set out to make a great painting. If you look at that blank canvas and say, ‘Now I’m going to create a masterpiece’ — that’s just foolhardy. You just have to make the best painting you can, and if you’re lucky, people will get the message.
— Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face
(Source: blogs.plos.org)