"The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius."
"I wondered what the ultimate super-villain would be. Then it hit me. Lord Adolf Skeletortron."
"Just because i MAKE the internet doesn’t mean i UNDERSTAND the internet"
"Every time I watch Mythbusters “debunk” MacGyver, I find myself thinking, “Yeah, but MAYBE it didn’t work because You Are Not MacGyver!"
"In this biz I essentially hire a bunch of white middle class kids, pay them enormous sums of money to create urban ads"
"Viral video campaigns” (Put a dollar in a jar if someone has asked you to make their video go “viral”—-now give me the jar so I can go shopping)"
~ Kristin Maverick, Carrot Creative’s Director of Communication
"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue."
"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English (up to fifty words used in correct context) no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
"…some designers in the future will shift from designing new products and start to design experiences for people to make better decisions about the objects they introduce into their lives or to better utilize the products they already have. The sales and support process at many product companies are ripe for a designer’s guiding hand. It’s mind-boggling to me that companies spend billions and billions of dollars designing and building products and then leave the selling of those products to sales people who are largely untrained and unmotivated and the support to a call center in Bangalore. Zappos, Apple, Amazon, and similar companies have realized this with spectacular results."
"We used to call it ragtime, then blues, then jazz. Now, it’s swing. Ha! Ha! White folks yo’all sho is a mess. Ha! Ha! Swing!"
"Bargument: To have an argument at a bar. As in, “Sorry I had to leave early, but my roommate got in a bargument with his girlfriend"