Passages

• "When reading the works of an important thinker, look first for the apparent absurdities in the text and ask yourself how a sensible person could have written them. When you find an answer... when these passages make sense, then you may find that more central passages, ones you previously thought you understood, have changed their meaning." – Thomas Kuhn
  Patterns: Mistakes, Philosophy, Hermeneutics
• "It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them." – Adlai Stevenson
  Patterns: Practice, Alignment
• "The first minute of action is worth more than a year of perfect planning." – James Clear
  Patterns: Iteration, Planning
• "Point of view is worth eighty IQ points." – Alan Kay
  Patterns: Polycentricity, Hermeneutics
• "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." – Alan Kay
  Patterns: Instauration
• "Never mistake motion for action." – Ernest Hemingway
  Patterns: Mistakes, Practice
• "What resists is real." – Bruno Latour
  Patterns: Reality, Materials
• "What has a name is real." – Basque saying
  Patterns: Concept, Reality
• "He who sees badly sees less and less; he who listens badly hears more than has been said." – Friedrich Nietzsche
  Patterns: Hermeneutics
• "The aim of philosophy is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term." – Wilfrid Sellars
  Patterns: Philosophy
• "A philosophical problem has the form: 'I don't know my way about.'" – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  Patterns: Perplexities, Philosophy
• "No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy." – Carl von Clausewitz
  Patterns: Reality, Planning, Competition
• "Nothing happens without a plan. Nothing happens according to plan." – Anonymous
  Patterns: Perplexities, Planning
• "Begin anywhere." – John Cage
  Patterns: Instauration, Iteration
• "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." – Bertrand Russell
  Patterns: Wicked Problems
• "If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first fifty-five minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes." – Albert Einstein
  Patterns: Wicked Problems, Planning, Research
• "A problem well put is a problem half solved." – John Dewey
  Patterns: Wicked Problems
• "Craft is material dialogue." – Anomalogue
  Patterns: Craft, Instauration, Materials
• "Conflict divides the world into four halves." – Anomalogue
  Patterns: Perplexities, Polycentricity, Competition
• "Behind a desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world." – John le Carré
  Patterns: Reality, Research
• "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." – Anonymous
  Patterns: Practice, Perplexities
• "We think with our hands." – Tim Brown
  Patterns: Craft, Practice, Instauration
• "Usefulness, usability, and desirability: A useful design is one that people need and will use. A usable design is one they can either use immediately or learn to use readily. A desirable design is one they want." – Liz Sanders
  Patterns: Concept, Quality
• "Compete to be unique, not the best." – Joan Magretta
  Patterns: Competition
• "You can't decide the way forward. You have to design the way forward." – Marty Neumeier
  Patterns: Wicked Problems, Instauration
• "The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end." – Marty Neumeier
  Patterns: Craft, Mistakes, Iteration
• "Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars" – Heraclitus
  Patterns: Philosophy, Research
• "Never decenter yourself. Polycenter yourself." – Anomalogue
  Patterns: Polycentricity
• "Never tell your child, 'you are not the center of the universe.' Say, 'You are not the only center of the universe.'" – Anomalogue
  Patterns: Polycentricity
• "In true love it is the soul that envelops the body." – Friedrich Nietzsche
  Patterns: Love
• "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  Patterns: Polycentricity, Alignment, Love, Collaboration
• "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  Patterns: Quality
• "Design should be invisible." – Beatrice Warde
  Patterns: Quality
• "Design is everything. Everything is design." – Paul Rand
  Patterns: Concept, Perplexities
• "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us." – Winston Churchill
  Patterns: Instauration, Materials