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.

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

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

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

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