There are three great themes in design: making something beautiful, making something easier, and making something possible. The best designs accomplish all three at once.

replace the idea of being 'productive' with instead being 'processive' - you cannot expect to build something new every day, you can expect to advance deeper into the process given a sufficiently strong intention

One thing we discovered early is that if we spend a little more time on presentation, we can reduce the amount of time spent convincing others to collaborate with us in the future.

We don’t have to beg people to work with us when they can see the results themselves.

It’s the work that does the work.

We must never forget the joy of doing something slow and something difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest.

“Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life.” —Kenya Hara, Design Design

“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.”
―Nikki Giovanni