Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.