What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.

Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

Design provides solutions, art asks questions.

With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.