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

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

Words have meaning, type has spirit.

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.

Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

Don't Live in the Darkness of Fear, Abandon Fear and Live in Joy!

Leash the anger on purpose.Unleash it when falling apart.

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

Life is a never ending miracle unfolding in every moment, and if we turn our attention to that silent presence in our heart, we can participate in that miracle.

There's no friends like the old friends.

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.

There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined.