There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

Men's clothing hasn't changed in 200 years, maybe a lapel gets a little wider or a tie gets narrower from time to time. But it's usually always the same. There is stupidity in men's fashion. But women know who they are. They can change. Clothing is seductive for women. They get different personas by buying new clothes. But men don't.

...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

Scale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale, or a page, or whatever if it's just right. A scale is a relationship to the object and the space surrounding it. And that dialogue could be music, or it could be just noise. And that is why it is so important, the sense of scale.

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.

I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.