Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?
In a sense, traditional business is design blind.
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.
If we have a choice in how we die, I would say that's a privilege. I think we have a sort of prudish approach to death in the West, though certainly not in Mexico. In Mexico, it's a little bit freer. We're not so precious about it.
The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.
I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use.
I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.