A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

One finds limits by pushing them.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Down the road of hate, at every busted corner lurks the need for love.

Keep your eyes on the prize for you cant hit an unseen target but don't forget to pay the price

[B]eauty is one of the things that make you cry and so maybe beauty is always tied up in tears.

Happiness is Grandad saving links to cat videos in a Word document so he can share them when she visits.

I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the variety and dissension among the philosophical schools of antiquity.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.