If you do it right, it will last forever.

Middle management is a disease.

I started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was just like anybody else, any other kid. I was playing with everything. I loved to do stage sets by cutting a piece of board and making a cut in three sides, flipping it down, making the stage.

The only way to stay in fashion is never be in. If you are never in fashion, you are never out of fashion.

The computer needs...even by accident, offers incredible beautiful things that are very seductive. And if you forget about, or if you don't have an idea to begin with, it is very easy to be seduced and that is not a good use of the computer.

Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.