Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently. And it’s that process that is the magic.
— Steve Jobs
No Excuses
One man with courage is a majority.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
— Greek proverb
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.
— Daniel Burnham
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
— Nelson Algren’s “Three rules of life” from A Walk on the Wild Side
I refuse to enter into a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
— Oscar Wilde
