Dee Hock

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.