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

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.

I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

My definition of learning is to remember what you are interested in. If you don't remember something, you haven't learned it, and you are never going to remember something unless you are interested in it. These words dance together. 'Interest' is another holy word and drives 'memory'. Combine them and you have learning.

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