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.

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

What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

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

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.