People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

Heaven is satisfied curiosity.

The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.

Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.