Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff

by Dinah Sanders

There are a lot of problems here. Pick a problem you think you can solve, and solve it. —Dr. Dave Warner, humanitarian and neuroscientist

Work only starts when the fear of doing nothing finally exceeds the fear of doing something badly. —Alain de Botton, writer and entrepreneur

The artist John Nordstrand said that a work of art requires both an artist and “the man with the hammer” whose job it is to hit the artist when it's time to quit tweaking and call the piece done.

There are three great design themes: making something beautiful, making something easier, and making something possible. —Dan Saffer, interaction designer and author

The only genuinely subversive thing you can do is have more fun than other people. So get to it! —Bill McKibben, environmentalist and writer