The World’s Greatest Quotes Collection

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

You won’t lose your job to AI—you’ll lose your job to somebody who uses AI.

Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.

Good design makes a product understandable.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

The more a person realizes the dignity of the soul, the less they find themselves in conflict with others.

Politicians and Diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

— Mark Twain

Notebook, 1894

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

— Johann Goethe

Goethe, Scientific Studies, 1798

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.