Figuring out the secret of the universe is like trying to read a brand after the steer's been made into hamburger."~Will Durham from Crossroads, A Music Novel

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

Design is thinking made visual.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.

You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.

It's great to be self confident, but some people are very egotistical. Once you realize the world doesn't revolve around you and change your attitude, you'll truly walk in your purpose.

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

Bring a torch, if you've got one. It's as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese.

I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

The vibrant, real historic Christian faith is very wide and leaves lots and lots of room for varying perspectives. It's very diverse and wide, that's part of it's strength, life and vibrancy.