Design is not the fabric of the sofa

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Dueling Cream Pies

I'd vote to allow dueling to be legalized; after all, the challenged person can choose the weapons, and I'd go for cream pies at 15 feet.

Undiscovered strength

Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.

Pay for your news

I do not believe that Newsweek is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but we're one of them. I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.

We have to decide: are we ready to get what we pay for? If you're not going to pay for news, then you're going to get a different kind of news. Full stop.

The resilience of American democracy

The great privilege of the Americans does not consist in being more enlightened than other nations, but in being able to repair the faults they may commit.

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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

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