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

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

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Knowledge makes everything simpler.

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.

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

If you have no fear, no one has power over you.