I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

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

We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

When you're younger, think less and do more; when you're older, do less and think more.