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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

So much of design is context.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new.

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.

Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.