We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

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.

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

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

Heaven is satisfied curiosity.

In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions to—or sometimes subtractions from—the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.

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