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• The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather…
• In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.
• Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.
• Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms…
• Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.
• Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.
• The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
• People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring
• The key to making things understandable is to understand what it’s like not to understand.
• If you serve that God, all the others will be taken care of. My quote is: 'The only way to communicate is…
• You only understand information relative to what you already understand.
• My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a…

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