Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.

The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring

The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God

One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of people - can keep in their heads. This is why software is generally beneath contempt.

Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.

Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.