Before a child learns to talk, they sing; Before they write, they draw; As soon as they stand, they dance. Art is fundamental to human expression
Creative
It's a curious thing that behaviour is unpredictable at an individual level but fairly predictable in groups
Human
The law of nature is that it is dangerous to be different
Human
Great design has a worldview and values, that it executes on consistently. It doesn't try to please everyone.
Creative
Happiness as a byproduct of a well ordered may last. As a goal, it is invariably doomed to failure.
Human
When it comes to defining other people we often fall into the trap of a single narrative because it’s easier for our memories. and then we forget to remind ourselves that everyone is living several contradictory truths simultaneously.
Human
Endless change is a kind of consistency
Human
It is still easier to change our circumstances than ourselves
Human
Dumbing down your smartphone, on demand, could do a lot to bring back the intimacy that phones once excelled at providing — the ability to communicate with friends and loved ones one-on-one, without the rest of the world watching and vying for our attention.
Digital
All I want to do is play. And what I discovered is that to the extent that you put your whole self into almost any task — even if it’s washing the dishes — it stops being work and it starts becoming play.
Human
If having enough means having enough to not have to face the realities of suffering and inequity, then having enough is simply too much.
Human
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight or understanding
Human
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art
Beauty
The three things consumers can do that will make a huge difference are: to eat less meat, stop throwing stuff away and fly less. If we all do a bit of these three then we’ll be well on our way
Threes
There's nothing that cures you of wanting to judge things quite like making a thing
Creative
Designing information means designing the way people understand the world
Creative
The alternative to good design is always bad design. There is no such thing as no design.
Creative
In a world where products are increasingly available for free, our privacy is one way to measure their true cost
Digital
Empathy has little to do with people’s location. Sure, a designer in the Bay area may not understand the people in India, but people in Bangalore don’t understand people in rural India either.
Creative
Inclusive design doesn’t mean you’re designing one thing for all people. You’re designing a diversity of ways to participate so that everyone has a sense of belonging.
Creative
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character
Human
The difference between theory and practice is always greater in practice than it is in theory
Creative
If I have an important point of view but a very bad joke, i won't put it out, because your opinion matters only as much as your art does.
Creative
But then, it's not really about the subjects — it never is with TV. It's about the viewer.
Creative
Anything outside of your routine is a journey
Human
This isn't an attempt by Google to radicalize us, it's the result of the biggest experiment ever conducted into what engages us. The answer is clear: something more extreme than the thing we last watched.
Digital
In the end, victory goes to the hardest hearts. To the ruthless go the spoils.
Human
It could be said that your income bracket defines your experience of a city, and so we kind of travel to different places even when we reach the same destination.
Human
Good design ignores the stereotype without stereotyping the ignored
Creative
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten
Creative
Good acting, as a craft, is about gaining control of all the involuntary things we do when we communicate
Creative
A true thing poorly expressed is a lie
Creative
Depression is grief disproportionate to circumstance; And Sometimes, depression is a form of learned helplessness.
Human
Everyone says content is king, but the secret monarch of the content economy is form—constraints, rules, minima and maxima.
Creative
Think of the sentences in a paragraph as a conversation between an elderly, companionable couple
Creative
Our brain releases more dopamine in the anticipation of rewards than the reward itself
Human
I know what I want to make, and I make what I want to watch
Creative
Once you look at what seems ordinary long enough, it often turns odd and unfamiliar, as any child repeatedly saying their own name aloud learns.
Human
I’ve been rich. It’s easier than being broke, harder than “doing just fine".
Human
A scientist’s main job is to fight the inner conspiracy theorist
Human
You have to create things that are adjustable and variable, but even then, if you exclude the top 5 or 10% , you can still be excluding a million people.
Digital
I have always said that there are three aspects in creative that are important to me: Semantic, Syntactic and Pragmatic.
Threes
It’s an uncomfortable emotion. You don’t have wonder. Wonder has you.
Creative
[…]a little bit of ambiguity in self-identity helps a lot creatively, because I don’t feel as constricted by who I am.
Creative
I’m also interested in the word “mend” and reclaiming that word, which has been traditionally deemed inferior. It belongs to the realm of craft, and is associated with female labor. I use it to describe literally and figuratively how to move forward with divides.
Creative
What does it mean to “own” a smartphone when the manufacturer can unilaterally degrade its efficacy over time? What does it mean to “own” a stationary bicycle when the maker can void its functionality with a software upgrade? What does it mean to “own” a car when decisions about driving and operating the vehicle are not fully yours?
Digital
Karaoke isn’t about being a good singer, it’s about reading the room and trying to connect with the people in it. Bad karaoke isn’t bad singing – it’s what I like to call “selfish karaoke,”– almost always a song that nobody except the singer wants to hear. If you can pick a song that people will sing along to, you can’t fail at karaoke.
This is also a metaphor for business, and life.
Creative
Convenience, makes things easy, but without regard to whether easiness is truly what’s most valuable in any given context. […] But sender and recipient both know that it’s a poor substitute for purchasing a card in a shop, writing on it by hand, and then walking to a postbox to post it, because contrary to the cliché, it isn’t really the thought that counts, but the effort – which is to say, the inconvenience.
Creative
Technology changes too fast, you need to educate students in the stuff that changes slowly — those things that are fundamentally human. Verbs, not nouns.
Digital
Planning is based on the expectation of order. Preparation is based on the expectation of chaos.
Human
We don’t know how to measure what we care about, so we care about what we can measure
Human
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
Beauty
If you only see one solution to a problem, then you don’t really understand the problem
Creative
If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun
Human
Anyone who has worked in a creative field—or has reflected on his or her own creativity — recognizes that being creative is necessarily chaotic, sometimes arbitrary, and often unpredictable.
Creative
I adore coincidences. It makes me feel like I’m in the right place.
Human
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled
Human
Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in creative.
Creative
The difference between a civilised society and a barbarian state is entirely in a punishment being proportionate to the crime.
Human
Yes, I consented, but man, am I tired of being the only one responsible for keeping things consensual. The agency to keep saying "no" isn't agency at all.
Human
Don’t be so eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to the most boring conformity.
Human
You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird.
Human
Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
Into twenty villages
Human
Design is the opposite of an accident
Creative
The only people we think of as "normal" are perhaps the ones we don't know very well.
Human
Poverty is the inability to make better choices.
Human
Assertions of power in public spaces (read: online public platforms) seem to be the ultimate form of cowardice.
Digital
Beauty is the promise of happiness
Beauty
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something and it seemed obvious after a while.
Creative
We had not yet learned the lesson that vocabulary limits not just how well you speak but how well you listen.
Human
By reducing problems to the most immediate causes, we might be causing more severe problems somewhere else in the system.
Creative
The computer is incredibly fast, accurate and stupid while humans are unbelievably slow, inaccurate and brilliant
Digital
Every time you get a procedure, you are exerting incrementally more pressure on all the women you pass.
Beauty
The most relaxing thing about listening to the radio is knowing that it’s not learning my preferences.
Digital
Those familiar with the craft of storytelling recognise that sometimes, the whole truth is just lazy
Creative
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard.
Human
A prototype is a question embodied
Creative