It doesn't occur to most people that everything is designed. — Bill Moggridge

Whatever you decide to do, remember to keep it simple, keep it fresh. — John Baldessari

Nothing will work unless you do. — Maya Angelou

Everything in moderation, including moderation. — Oscar Wilde

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information. — Edward Tufte

I take it as an elemental truth of life that words matter. — Krista Tippett

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. — James Baldwin

Take your pleasure seriously. — Charles Eames

I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation. — Wednesday Addams

We don't have the luxury of cynicism. Cynicism is for other people. — Bruce Mau

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. — Abigail Adams

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. — Rumi

Don't try to be original. Just try to be good. — Paul Rand

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. — Martin Luther King Jr.

You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. — Robin Williams

In nature, there is no such thing as waste. — David Suzuki

The way we do anything is the way we do everything. — Rick Rubin

The design process doesn't really have a beginning or an end. — Matej Latin

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. — Mary Oliver

Why not market caution? Why not market sacred? — Sylvia Earle

Surprise is golden. Randomness is lobster. — Bill Murray

Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naïveté. — Maria Popova

It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. — Maude Chardin

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. — Gilles Deleuze

Rightsize the rigor. — Melinda Gates

Transform yourself to transform the world. — Grace Lee Boggs

We know more than we can tell. — Michael Polanyi

Any scene which does not both advance the plot and stand alone dramatically is either superfluous or incorrectly written. — David Mamet

Don't place too much trust in experts — Jenny Holzer

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. — Anaïs Nin

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. — Ernest Hemingway

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. — Mark Twain

An educated mind is able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle

There is a crack, a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in. — Leonard Cohen

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. — Vincent van Gogh

Loneliness in an age of abundant connection is our culture's tragic curse. — Brian Collins

History doesn’t just happen in the past. — Jill Burke

Design is applied ethics. Because design is fundamentally intention. — Erika Hall

Empathy is not a department. — Samantha Zucker

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. — William Morris

The best way to accomplish serious design is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job. — Paula Scher

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical. — Victor Papanek

Between modernizing and ecologizing, one must choose. — Bruno Latour

Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due. — Winston Churchill

If I was paid for the hours I spend worrying, I would be a trillionaire. — Damian Bradfield

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Ambition is actually curiosity and humility mixed with confidence. — Andy Pearson

My friends call me the 'creative one.' — Hannah Townsend

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story. — Antonio Damasio

Can't we give ourselves one more chance? — Queen & David Bowie

Modernity means understanding how society is changing. — Deyan Sudjic

You manage to understand something along the way, if only it is how little you understood back then. — James Caig

Design is a way to move past hunch-based decision-making. — Nathan Shedroff & Jorge Arango

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered. — José Saramago

A.I. is putting the skills of the best of us into the hands of the worst of us. — Johan Cedmar-Brandstedt

Think before you speak. Read before you think. — Fran Lebowitz

A creative company empowers making at a strategic and conceptual level. — Jon Kolko

Designers are responsible for maintaining generative conversations. — Hugh Dubberly

Sometimes a difference in scale is itself a difference in principle. — Benedict Evans

Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma? — Vampire Weekend

Post-its are a great technology for micro thinking becoming macro thinking. Are they overused as a meme? Absolutely. — Sandy Speicher

Don’t get ready, get started. — David & Tom Kelley

Local cultures can be seen as social technologies adapted to their ecological niche. — Spencer Scott

Like all good fruit, the balance of life is in the ripe and the ruin. — alt-J

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut

As long as art stands aside from the problems of life it will only interest a very few people. — Bruno Munari

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw

The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation—however minute. — Susan Sontag

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we don't feed ourselves with poetry, we die. — Ryoko Sekiguchi

Design is not a profession but an attitude. — László Moholy-Nagy

Do whatever you do intensely. — Robert Henri

I am in a state of permanent intellectual erection. — Salvador Dalí

Ecstasy takes practice. — Carmen Maria Machado

To live is to be willing to die over and over again. — Pema Chödrön

Feeling predicts intelligence. — Amiri Baraka

To do a dull thing with style is preferable / To doing a dangerous thing without it. — Charles Bukowski

Language is the repository of our prejudices, our beliefs, our assumptions. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Your legacy, in some ways, is what you love and what you’ve asked other people to love alongside you. — Hanif Abdurraqib

If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less. — Eric Shinseki