Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.
Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.
The repercussion of ugliness is endless.
...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!
A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing