“Rough layouts sell the idea better than polished ones. If you show a highly polished computer layout, the client will focus on the execution not the idea. Show a scribble. Explain it. Talk through it. Involve your client. Let them use their imagination.”

One's ability to articulate an idea always lags behind the understanding of the idea, and the understanding of an idea often lags behind the embodiment in which it is first given life. It can take a surprising amount of time to come to understand what a prototype is trying to "say", and longer still to say it oneself.

-Bret Victor

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

– Jean-Luc Godard

Bees don't waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than shit

"I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." — Duke Ellington

“You can’t talk butterfly language with caterpillar people.”

Trish Deseine

Question on rejecting the status quo:

Is it time you start living outside the box?

There's a passage from Nassim Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes that hit me hard:

"They are born, then put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called 'work' in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the

‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen