I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.

When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.