“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.”

We need practice solving problems.

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

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.

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.

You may trust the Lord too little, but you can never trust Him too much.

I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

They were pretty interesting about being interesting able to look at their children and think oh my children know things and they gave us a lot of sense of our own agency, and that may be a kind of a ruling class trait.

May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.

True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.