Paul Rand

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.