Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

#222

Design is moving an existing position to a preferred one.

#223

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

#224

There are three responses to a piece of design—yes, no, and WOW!
Wow is the one to aim for.

#225

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.”

#226

Less isn’t more; just enough is more.

#973

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

#974

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

#975

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

#976

I have become increasingly interested in words, because I think words are images. I don’t see a separation between words and images. I think the right three words can create as much imagery as any motion picture.

#977

The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.

#978

Albert Einstein • Guy de Maupassant • Henry David Thoreau • Voltaire • Friedrich Nietzsche • Confucius • Kurt D. Cobain • Elwyn Brooks White • Steven Wright • anonymous • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt • Mike Monteiro • Martin Luther King Jr. • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • Marshall McLuhan • Zig Ziglar • Theodor Seuss Geisel • Pablo Picasso • John Maeda • Winston Churchill • David Bohm • Rabindranath Tagore • Mahatma Gandhi

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