From a great interview with Neville Brody on Designers are Wankers.
“…these days, people seem to think that you go to college in order to get a job, and they treat it as career training, and that’s a mistake, a huge mistake. I think they should be developing their creative ability, developing themselves as human beings, developing their eye, but making sure they’re completely aware of the context of what’s going on in the real world. Because ‘designers are wankers’; because they think they don’t matter in a way, they think that they can just do shit, and it doesn’t bother anyone. Actually people live with this shit. What you and I do, even if it affects one person, it affects one person and there is a certain responsibility with that. ”