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

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

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.

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

Be stimulated by rejection

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

Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.

I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.

Everything takes time… and that’s something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to.

You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron.

Work harder than your opponent.

I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn’t get far enough in any of those things.