good art inspires, good design motivates. |

Design is a set of decisions about a product. It's not an interface or an aesthetic, it's not a brand or a color. Design is the actual decisions. |

Everything is designed. Few things are designed well. |

At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism. |

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. |

The power of the grid is to lift the designer outside of the protective capriciousness of the "self" by providing an existing set of possibilities, a set of rules. |

It is foolish to think that you will get the design right the first time. It is also foolish to think that there won’t be changes to a design once development begins. And on a larger scale, software products are never done unless they are dead. Life is better when you stop kidding yourself and your team and admit that there is no “done”. |

Those who tell the stories rule society. |

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. |

The reason for designing new media is simple - to subtly and quietly change the world. |

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. |

Word of mouth is the best medium of all. |

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.” |

If you are going through hell, keep going. |

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. |

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. |

If I had five minutes to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first three sharpening my axe. |

Stop consuming images and start producing them. |

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding. |

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future. |

Time is the notion of "before and after". |

The total number of minds in the universe is one. |

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. |

If every time men had sex, they risked death, physical disability, a life-altering interruption in their education or career, and the sudden lifelong responsibility for another human being, I think they'd expect a choice in the matter. |