If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. |

It boils down to this: you aren't allowed to tell [customers] what their problem is, and in return, they aren't allowed to tell you what to build. They own the problem, and you own the solution. |

Content is like Water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. |

Re-examine all that you have been told; dismiss that which insults your soul. |

The most effective way to do it, is to do it. |

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. |

Yesterday I was clever and I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise and I'm changing myself. |

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. |

There is more to life than increasing its speed. |

Design is the rendering of intent. |

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. |

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. |

I think everybody should be nice to everybody. |

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

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. |

Take things away until you cry. |

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! |

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

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

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

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." |

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. |

Speak only if it improves upon the silence. |

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