You never know when a typical life will be anything but, and you won’t know if you are rewriting history, or rewriting the future, until the writing … - Debbie Millman

One piece of advice I think they should ignore is the value of being a “people person.” No one cares if you are a people person. Have a point of view, and share it meaningfully, thoughtfully, and with conviction.

Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. Thus, designers must balance both the logic and lyricism of humanity every time they design something, a task that requires a singularly mysterious skill.

The great distinction between purgatory and inferno, or hell, is that the people in purgatory know what they have done and the people in hell do not.