I am terribly fascinated with things that I don’t understand.

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

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

The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

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.

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

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.