Posts filed under Quotable:

Maya Angelou

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

Confucious

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

Cliff Kuang, Editor, Co.Design

“What do people want? What does society need? Design answers those questions – and asks them in more interesting ways.”

Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck

“The scarcest resource for today’s business leaders is no longer just land, capital or human labor, and it certainly isn’t information. Attention is what’s in short supply..”

Madonna (born 1958)

“There are moments when I can’t believe I’m as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don’t think, Oh God, I’m missing something.”

Conversations 2011

Our next Conversations event with TED speaker Johanna Blakley will take place on Thursday, June 23rd. For more information and RSVP details, sign up for our mailing list via Facebook

 

Charles Eames

Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Dave Dickinson of Zeo, on Wireless Health

“People don’t buy wireless; they buy benefits.”

Jessica Helfand, on Rethinking Nostalgia

I’ve had a growing concern over the past few years that designers in general… seem predisposed toward a kind of virulent antihistoricism. It’s as if a bow to history precludes innovation, that looking back prevents you from looking forward.

Michael DiTullo

We use non-linear thinking explained through stunningly visual and tactile media to convince linear thinkers to take risks they never would other wise.