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

What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.

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.

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

My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.

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

It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.