The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.
Brand is not what you say it is. It’s what they say it is.
Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.
I see "demand creation" as a 20th-century construct that's bound up with advertising. It's an outmoded view of marketing that says, "First, we build a product or service, then we advertise it into people's lives. " Embedded this view is the belief that companies control brands. This is a myth. My message all along has been that brands are actually created by customers, not companies. Companies only provide the raw materials - the products, messaging, behaviors - that people use these to create brands.
The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.
There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.
If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.
Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!