noblesse oblige

"To be successful you have to have self doubt."
- Barbara Streisand 

"Data can help you make a good design great, but it will never make a bad design good."
- Margaret Gould Stewart

FDR's blood pressure before he died was 240/130. A healthy range is 115/75. 

"Among all arts, film is the most important for us."
- Vladimir Lenin as quoted by Roman Polanski in Seduced and Abandoned

"I'm not ashamed to call myself a redesigner."
- Tommy Hilfiger

The tiny, oil-rich nation of Qatar has purchased a Paul Cézanne painting, The Card Players, for more than $250 million. The deal, in a single stroke, sets the highest price ever paid for a work of art and upends the modern art market. Article here.

nature enthusiast

"My car should look like a beetle."
- Adolph Hitler

on wine

"It's a beverage. You either like it or you don't."
- Costco wine buyer

"Everything in the universe dances, has rhythm."
- Maya Angelou

"Meditation is concentration, really."
- HRH Prince Charles

"If you're not making mistakes you're not trying."
- Tim Cook, Apple CEO

165,000 corks = happiness

"What's life without whimsy?"
- John Pollack

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."
- JFK

things in common

"My ultimate goal is to invent something as simple as the Venn Diagram."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

the most expensive smell in the world

... on Bordeaux wine.

"Do as much as you can artistically always, because sometimes it stops."
- Brian Eno to Reggie Watts