Quotes from David Butler

You haven't read anything until you've comprehended it.

Bad design is the default mode, since it takes the least effort to create.

What you really want is to be able to pick up a book and understand what the author is saying in the least amount of time.

In 2013, for example, a seventeen-year-old Australian teenager living in England built a content-shortening app, called Summly, in his bedroom, which he promptly sold to Yahoo for a reported thirty million dollars. Now, imagine the next seventeen-year-old with a 3D printer, and you begin to sense the dimensions of the potential upheaval.

What Your Speed Means

58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school. 42% of college students never read another book after college. 80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year. 70% of US adults have not been to a bookstore in the last five years. 57% of new books are not read to completion. Most readers do not get past page 18 in a book they have purchased.

We're all designers now. It's time to get good at it.

Learn to swim, and then swim. -John Lennon when asked, "What's the meaning of life?

By this time a lot of men and women of doubtful reputation were hanging around Jesus, listening intently. The Pharisees and religion scholars were not pleased, not at all pleased. They growled, 'He takes in sinners and eats meals with them, treating them like old friends.'"6 I love that translation. He wasn't just tolerating the people of doubtful reputation; He was treating them like old friends!

you can never know how far any individual can go since reading aptitudes are as unique as basketball or bowling aptitudes.