There’s the whole Buddhist thing about the essence of a bowl being its emptiness—that’s why it’s useful. Its emptiness allows it to hold something. I guess that means that design must talk about something else. If you make design about design, you’re just stacking bowls, and that’s not what bowls are for.

#650

Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.

#49

People ignore design that ignores people.

#58

(...) so much of our identities lie in the ability to participate in and contribute to the things that are important to us.

#126

Take things away until you cry.

#200

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