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.

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

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.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

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

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.