Tim Brown Quotes

For me certainly Earl Campbell and Tony Dorsett come to mind, and Roger Staubach. I've grown up here in Dallas watching Roger and his playing career and to be in the same fraternity as Roger Staubach is/was a huge deal for me.

Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions.

Rather than thinking to build, build to think.

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.

Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions.

Other case studies demonstrate that brainstorming is as essential to creativity as exercise is to a healthy heart.

Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.

We are at a critical point where rapid change is forcing us to look not just to new ways of solving problems but to new problems to solve.

Innovation requires, above all else, a willingness to embrace chaos.

Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.

It's critical that young people start flexing their creative muscles in order to take on the world's most complex challenges.

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.