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.

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

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.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

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

Simplicity and complexity need each other.