We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.

For me certainly Earl Campbell and Tony Dorsett come to mind, and Roger Staubach. I've grown up here in Dallas watching Roger and his playing career and to be in the same fraternity as Roger Staubach is/was a huge deal for me.

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

It’s critical that young people start flexing their creative muscles in order to take on the world's most complex challenges.

It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.

Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it