Only boring people get bored.

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

It’s not about sharing the potential blame. It’s about sharing the potential success.

There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I’m not like those designers who think they are pressed too much, that their creativity is so fragile. It’s very simple, no? Don’t take the job if you think you cannot do it. Bad football players do not play in the first league. Swimmers who cannot really swim never win. I mean, you have to know if you can do this kind of sport on that level. If not, forget about it. But you cannot expect people to cry about you, that you are so overworked, so pressed. Nobody presses me.

It doesn’t happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.

Show me a person who cannot bother with little things and I’ll show you someone who should not be trusted to do big things.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Gear is easier to talk about than vision. Exposures are exact, the camera dials have numbers. There is a ‘right’ answer to many of these questions.