Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives.

I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.

Taking risks gives me energy.

Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.