“The space that symbolizes the Information Age is not the symmetrical and ornamental space of traditional architecture, the rectangular volumes of modernism, nor the broken and blown up volumes of deconstruction. Rather, it is space whose shapes are inherently mutable and whose soft contours act as a metaphor for the key quality of computer-driven representations and systems: variability.”

— Lev Manovich

“If you look at history, innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.”

— Steven Johnson

“Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.”
— Leo Burnett

“Craft is what enables you to be successful when you’re not inspired.”
— Brian Eno

“Architecture is organization. You are an organizer, not a drawing-board stylist.”

— Le Corbusier

“If names cannot be correct, then language is not in accordance with the truth of things; and if language is not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.”

— Confucius

“I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I’m more interested in the mortar than the bricks.”

— Jerry Seinfeld

“The practice of principles must precede their derivation, articulation, and institutionalization.”

— John Lewis Gaddis