“For the sake of design integrity, a professional designer will put up with vast amounts of discomfort, and resent any consumer unwilling to make the same sacrifice.”
-Ralph Caplan
Fighting for values
“Much energy has been wasted fighting for things, when we should have been fighting for values.”
-Rajni Bakshi
There is always enough time
“There is always enough time. Listen to your intuition to find out what doesn’t really matter.”
-Amber Tande
Innovation everywhere
“In every area, no matter how archaic, there’s innovation to be had. That’s a surprise to me.”
-Vinod Khosla
Academics
“The academics had nothing to do with the industrial revolution.”
-C P Snow
Scale successes
“What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes?”
-Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Trying on old ideas
“Old ideas… do not vanish, and when there is a crisis, and people lose hope… they fetch them out and try them on again.”
-Theodore Zeldin
Preserving ideals
“It is not ideals that the world is short of, but methods to stop them becoming a sham, a lie.” -Theodore Zeldin
Practical people
“What is the point of having discussions with practical people who always say you cannot change the world?”
-Theodore Zeldin
The enemy of truth
“Truth… depends on evidence. Without evidence, anything goes. The enemy of truth is very often not the lie, but the myth.”
-Harold Kroto