Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

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.

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.

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

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

Creativity's about ownership.