“Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions…that get us to the right answer.”

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today

Always be a beginner at something.

When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

If I can see it, it’s a failure

My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!

The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

Don’t saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn’t owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you’re going to have to give up your right to understanding. It’s called trust.

If Google doesn’t know the answer, then it’s not a question

Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.

I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.

Deny your emotions and act like you have answers

We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.