Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. The big design problem is designing your life. It's by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.

When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always – do it anyway.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.

The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.

One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.