Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.

I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

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

Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern.

Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.