Alain de Botton Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. December 20, 1969
Birthday: December 20
to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap
source: Alain de Botton (2007). “The Architecture of Happiness”, p.121, Penguin UK
topic: Believe, Mean, Light, Switching Off
