“There’s nothing in my head that’s worth anything at all because it’s the culture that put it there.”

We need practice solving problems.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

If you haven’t read Alan Fletcher’s The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside…that’s why I’ve never had a job.

Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.

No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible. Sometimes it’s even better.

Be stimulated by rejection

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

In our culture, security has become an obsession.

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.

Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans

These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.