A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing
There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
Don't be governed by the grid, govern the grid. A grid is like a lion cage - if the trainer stays too long it gets eaten up. You have to know when to leave the cage - you have to know when to leave the grid.
The repercussion of ugliness is endless.
Good design is ubiquitous and forever.
Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.