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  • #1
    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #4
    Bertrand Russell
    “Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #5
    Ellen Lupton
    “Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.”
    Ellen Lupton, Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students

  • #6
    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #9
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #10
    Eckhart Tolle
    “The past has no power over the present moment.”
    Eckhart Tolle

  • #11
    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    Walter Cronkite

  • #12
    Robert Frost
    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
    Robert Frost

  • #13
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #14
    Robert Frost
    “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
    Robert Frost

  • #15
    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

  • #16
    William Gibson
    “When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
    William Gibson, Zero History

  • #17
    Jim Henson
    “Simple is good.”
    Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green and Other Things to Consider

  • #18
    John Maeda
    “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
    John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity

  • #19
    Paul Rand
    “Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”
    Paul Rand

  • #20
    Paul Rand
    “Don't try to be original; just try to be good.”
    Paul Rand

  • #21
    Paul Rand
    “You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.”
    Paul Rand

  • #22
    Paul Rand
    “The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity. He takes snapshots, makes notes and records impressions on tablecloths or newspapers, on backs of envelopes or matchbooks. Why one thing and not another is part of the mystery, but he is omnivorous.”
    Paul Rand, Paul Rand: A Designer's Art

  • #23
    Paul Rand
    “Everything is design. Everything!”
    Paul Rand

  • #24
    Paul Rand
    “All art is relationships, all art. Design is relationships. Design in a relationship between form and content... Your glasses are round. Your collar is diagonal. These are relationships. Your mouth is an oval. Your nose is a triangle - this is what design is.”
    Paul Rand

  • #25
    Paul Rand
    “Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble
    for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing
    effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.”
    Paul Rand

  • #26
    Paul Rand
    “Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.”
    Paul Rand

  • #27
    Paul Rand
    “Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions, there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.”
    Paul Rand
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  • #28
    Paul Rand
    “So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time. ”
    Paul Rand

  • #29
    Paul Rand
    “In essence, it is not what it looks like but what it does that defines a symbol.”
    Paul Rand, Thoughts on Design

  • #30
    Clay Shirky
    “Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task.”
    Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age



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