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  1. I think everybody should be nice to everybody. |
     

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  2. (...) Develop a system-oriented discipline for designing the means by which greater effectiveness is achieved. |
     

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  3. Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions, there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. |
     

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  4. Take things away until you cry. |
     

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  5. The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn't work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it's not good. It gets worse. You go at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing this isn't going to work. And it does! |
     

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  6. It is important to use your hands. This is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator. |
     

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  7. The brain is the most democratic tool that all artists and designers share. |
     

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  8. Be kind, for everyone you meet is carrying a great burden. |
     

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  9. It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm." |
     

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  10. One of the tenets of science seems to be that if we wait for a little, we're going to find that what we know now is wrong. If we can keep from locking our jaws onto each precious notion, we might do a little better at moving with greater fluidity in this sea of ideas. |
     

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  11. Speak only if it improves upon the silence. |
     

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  12. Design isn't risky. Change is. Good design mitigates that risk. |
     

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  13. Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. |
     

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  14. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. |
     

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  15. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. |
     

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  16. It is fidelity of the experience, not the fidelity of the prototype, sketch, or technology that is important from the perspective of ideation and early design. |
     

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  17. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. |
     

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  18. Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. |
     

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  19. Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction. |
     

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  20. If you show up for the muse consistently, then she will start showing up for you. |
     

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  21. If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels. |
     

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  22. Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe. |
     

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

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  24. Design is moving an existing position to a preferred one. |
     

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