The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating… even awe-inspiring, but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

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.

I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.

Pieces of your heart broke every day when you were a mother.

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.

Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.