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Here is one of the few effective keys to the design problem — the ability of the designer to recognize as many of the constraints as possible — his willingness and enthusiasm for working within these constraints. Constraints of price, of size, of strength, of balance, of surface, of time and so forth.

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

If you avoid folks that are polarizing, you avoid bold outcomes. A strong culture tolerates some necessary ruckus.

The bifocal mind is a wishful mind and skews the work's potential for greatness into greatness itself.

Gradatim Ferociter. It stands for step-by-step ferociously. One step a time.

Humility can be confused with insecurity. Quiet can come across as indifference. Hope can be seen as naïveté. Lots gets lost in translation.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

I never decide if an idea is good or bad until I try it.

I see simplicity not so much as a disregard for complexity, but as a clarification of the significant.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.

You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes an existing model obsolete.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Real patience isn't about time. It's about relentlessness. It's a qualitative thing that we acknowledge quantitatively.

When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

An economy of means leads to dexterity of will.

Pictures should look like they were easily taken. Otherwise beauty…is made to seem elusive and rare, which it is not.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.