Ideo's Quotes

#1. After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.

John Biddle

#2. I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert
a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

Mark Twain

#3. Practice silence, practice patience, practice to love every existence, peace will be there.

Debasish Mridha

#4. New opportunities for innovation open up when you start the creative problem-solving process with empathy toward your target audience. TOM KELLEY, IDEO Why

Marc Goodman

#5. Soulmate My Ass [10w]
Aspire to marry the person
the least wrong for you.

Beryl Dov

#6. We should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world, where, like faint glimmers in the dark, we have emerged ...

Andrei Sakharov

#7. Instead of thinking, "Why me?" I think, "Why not me?"' Extract from One Blink at a Time In

Marian Keyes

#8. The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so.

David Axelrod

#9. In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future.

Gregory Stock

#10. Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.

Heidi W. Durrow

#11. I think that if people look deeply enough into their trading patterns, they find that, on balance, including all their goals, they are really getting what they want, even though they may not understand it or want to admit it.

Ed Seykota

#12. However little you think you need to do, there's less you need to do.

Michael O'Neill

#13. The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive - and autonomy can be the antidote. TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO

Daniel H. Pink

#14. At IDEO we have dedicated rooms for our brainstorming sessions, and the rules are literally written on the walls: Defer judgment. Encourage wild ideas. Stay focused on the topic. The most important of them, I would argue, is "Build on the ideas of others.

Tim Brown

#15. There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing onto the paper or canvas. The cheap stuff just makes for harder work and lesser results.

Gene Black

#16. Fail faster. Succeed sooner." - David Kelley, founder IDEO

Tom Peters