When we release a design, a system, into the world, it takes on a life of its own, users use it in unexpected ways. Design is equal parts intention and surrender.

— Dennus Hambeukers [source]

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

― Richard P. Feynman

Complexity can be measured in a lot of ways but one of the most fruitful is to think of a society as a network of relationships.

— Adam Frank [source]

Optimism is hard because it must be constantly reaffirmed. In the face of a hostile, cynical world, it takes effort to show that positivity has merit.

— Steph Ango [source]

How could we get Britain voting on prototypes rather than promises?

— Matt Edgar [source]

We don’t deal in certainty, we deal in probability.

— “Zero Dark Thirty” (2012)

You work for the people who aren’t in the room.

As designers, we are tasked with solving the problems of the world. The more we and those we look up to reflect the face of the world around us, the better our solutions will be.

— Mike Monteiro [source]

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

— John Gall [source]