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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou

“Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom
we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine during
long train journeys, as we secretly contemplate a beautiful person who is
gazing out of the window – a perfect love story interrupted only when the
beloved looks back into the carriage and starts up a dull conversation
about the excessive price of the on-board sandwiches with a neighbour or
blows her nose aggressively into a handkerchief.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
― Alain de Botton

“Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.”
― Alain de Botton

“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.”
― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

“In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.”
― Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

“Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.”
― Ken Robinson

“We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.”
― Ken Robinson

“We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.”
― Ken Robinson

“The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

“The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.”
― Marissa Mayer

“Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.”
― Seth Godin

“Technology is anything invented after you were born.”
― Alan Kay

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
― Alan Kay

“Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.”
― W. Danny Hillis

“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”
― R.D. Laing

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.”
― Joe Sparano

“Designing a product is designing a relationship.”
― Steve Rogers

“Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.”
― Tate Linden

“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.”
― Robert L. Peters

“The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.”
― Tom Peterson

“Everything's okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end”
― Carolyn Myers

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.”
― Seth Godin

“Soon is not as good as now.”
― Seth Godin, Poke the Box