Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

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

Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

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.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

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.