. . . into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear
Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.
What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.
Less isn't more; just enough is more.
I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.
I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?
Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun. " I was inspired to reply, "If it isn't fun, why do it?"
The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration. . . they think it ill manners.