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  1. I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. |
     

    On Creativity

    #318

  2. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. |
     

    On Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #317

  3. Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay. |
     

    On Life and Death

    #316

  4. All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. |
     

    On Happiness

    #315

  5. I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was. |
     

    #313

  6. Art is a product; design is a process. |
     

    On Design

    #312

  7. In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design. |
     

    On Design

    #311

  8. No more art. The street is more important than the museum. |
     

    On Work

    #310 source

  9. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. |
     

    On Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #309

  10. Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. |
     

    On Life and Death

    #308

  11. You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. |
     

    On Mankind

    #307

  12. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. |
     

    On Love

    #289

  13. What matters now isn’t storytelling; it’s telling a true story well. |
     

    On Design

    #306 source

  14. Companies don’t have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other. |
     

    On Creativity

    #304 source

  15. Our designs are not ethical or unethical in that they're using ethical or unethical means of persuading us. They have a moral component just in the kind of vision and the aspiration of the good life that they present to us. |
     

    On Design

    #303 source

  16. The best way to predict is to invent it. |
     

    On Design

    #301 source

  17. The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. |
     

    On Creativity

    #300

  18. There is no intuitive interface, not even the nipple. It's all learned. |
     

    On Design

    #299 source

  19. You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. |
     

    On Mankind

    #298

  20. You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. |
     

    On Mankind

    #297 source

  21. Brevity is the soul of wit. |
     

    On Writing & copywriting

    #296 source

  22. Many of our interfaces are really just ways to try to repackage time so that it’s meaningful, so that we can do stuff with it. It’s not that there isn’t enough time but rather that there’s too much of it. |
     

    On Design

    #295 source

  23. I can never remember if we are supposed to live each day as it were our last, or if it’s the first day of the rest of our lives. |
     

    On Happiness

    #294 source

  24. The only unit of time that matters is heartbeats. |
     

    On Life and Death

    #293 source