Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.

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

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

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

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

If you serve that God, all the others will be taken care of. My quote is: 'The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand.' It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.