Build pockets of stillness in your life.

New York's cultural currency is one of the highest in the world, because everybody can relate to it at some point.

Just say no.

Ponder: what does my existing material life say about me?

You learn a lot when you do things yourself.

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol.

More than anything, I would like designers to stop being "bottoms", and realize the amount of power they actually have in the relationship [with their clients].

What makes a great client? Brains, passion, trust and courage.

What do I owe a great client? Loyalty, honest, dedication and tenacity.

Clients are the difference between design and art.

What differentiates the people who succeed is that they're the ugly ducklings who dare to fly even though they know that people are going to laugh at them one way or another 'cause they know that they're going to grown up like a swan because they're going to learn from every laugh, every interaction with other people.

Sentirnos vivos y no en modo automático.

Like many of the statistical subjects about whom you read, I've been surrounded by drugs, violence, hopelessness, and the general malaise that seems to be the only thing that gets our city press.

На каждом следующем витке ты все лучше делаешь какую-то вещь и все меньше у тебя делается свободы переопределять себя и находить себе новые применения.

We started Street Etiquette because we felt that we had something to give back to the world.

New York is a city where you see so many different variations of yourself.

It's hard to talk about heritage without talking about culture.

I am a girl who cannot make what I see in my mind.

Heritage is what is passed on to us. It's the land, the buildings—but it's also who you are. Your ethnicity, music, dance, traditions.

I think a lot of these infographics now are not very interesting because the underlying data itself is not very interesting. I think good infographics, good data design, has to begin with a secret or with an insight that you can deliver to people and that can only be revealed by the design of that data in a particular way.

The opposite of failure is open-mindedness.

The less you own, the more you have!

The same conditions that seem to be characterized as disadvantages, hinderances, and pitfalls are the conditions that made me and most of my friends mentally fit, aware, determined, quick on our feet, and focused human beings.

I'm late because of New York's cultural exchanges.

We're encouraged here to be different and not for the sake of being different, it's for the sake of being yourself and recognizing the sum of the parts that creates you rather than shunning some to appear more authentic or hiding some to appear cool or hip.