“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!”

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

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

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.

Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.

If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them.

From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.