Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.

When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go... Yeah, well, of course.

The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.