Nothing is a failure - it either needs more salt or more sugar.

Siempre es la gente que va en contra del sistema la que crea el cambio

Descartes no podría estar más equivocado: aún cuando uno deja de pensar, uno sigue siendo. Cuando uno deja de pensar es cuando uno más es.

La forma de en verdad conocerse a uno es el silencio.

There's where the revolution comes from: from knowing yourself and understanding who you are.

De ahí es donde viene la revolución: de uno conocerse a uno mismo, de uno entender quién es uno.

Our creativity is the source of our vitality.

Satisfaction is as much a discipline of your mind as it is the reaction to your circumstance.

We are not going to have fresh ideas if we're just a bunch of white dudes with beards.

Good people bring out the good in people.

A cook heats a pan up and adds something to it. A chef adds a glass of wine.

Big fonts are not data visualizations.

Kindness. It doesn't cost a thing. Sprinkle that shit everywhere.

If you are a creative person, then you'll be happy. But I'm not ever focused on happiness.

Don't worry about big ideas, keep making stuff. Build little things, build prototypes, make sketches.

I kind of like "love what you do" better. Wherever you are just be good at it, embrace it, love it. Eventually success will find you.

Inspiration, in its simplest, is seeing the finish line before you start.

We're not in the industrial economy anymore, we are in the connection economy and connection creates value.

It's the work you are after, not the credit.

Demand responsibility but don't worry at all about authority.

I'm offended by how they [designers on a video pitch] speak. They speak on behalf of rich, very well off companies, and they talk about design like it's an inherently good thing. Design is not good onto itself; Design is, in fact, neutral.

We just can't assume that technology will fix all of the country's problems, like housing, and climate, and healthcare. These are complicated issues and our smartphones can't simply circumvent bureaucracy to fix them.

Design feels like a very precise cover for liberal white guilt. You do everything, right? You recycle, you're vegetarian. You work for a company that aspires to truly change the world for the better, but you really haven't done any of the hard work yet.

Start a conversation with yourself about what the future means to you.

It's far to easy in the modern life to conform completely to the ways and systems in which we inherit.