When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
—R. Buckminster Fuller (via Involution and Forty)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
– Scott Adams, cartoonist

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
– John W. Gardner (1912-2002, American educator, social activist)

Too often we…enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
– John F. Kennedy

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
– Winnie the Pooh

Good design is the most important way to differentiate ourselves from our competitors.
– Yun Jong Yong, Samsung CEO

It is in the moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
– Anthony Robbins

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward and look for the ah-ha.
– Ernst Haas

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
– Benjamin Franklin

If a major project is truly innovative, you cannot possibly know its exact cost and its exact schedule at the beginning. And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.
– Joseph G. Gavin, Jr., discussing the design of the lunar module that landed NASA astronauts on the moon.