She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone
If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.
All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.
Attention must be paid’ is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.
. . . one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of the rules of a well-run corporation is that surprise is to be minimized. Yet if this rule were applied to the creative process, nothing worth reading would get written, nothing worth seeing would get painted, nothing worth living with and using would ever get designed.
As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.
Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.
We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.
Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.